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JEFFREY LASSALINE
HEAD OF SALE, SILVER & OBJECTS OF VERTU SPECIALIST
Jeffrey joined Tennants in 2019, bringing with him over 25 years experience working with the decorative arts. Having moved to London in 2000 to take up the post of Head of the Silver Department at Christie’s South Kensington. In 2005 Jeffrey moved to Christie’s King Street to become Senior Silver Specialist and Director. During nearly 20 years working at Christie’s, Jeffrey was involved in many landmark sales, such as the Peggy and David Rockefeller Sale in 2018, and handled numerous important items such as the Fabergé Rothschild Egg, which sold for almost £8.9m in 2007.
Jeffrey has a passion for silver and works to promote contemporary goldsmiths and silversmiths and support the industry. Jeffrey is currently Deputy Chair of Trustees of the Hand Engravers Association of Great Britain and is a Freeman of the Goldsmiths’ Company.
JESSICA FALL, BSc(Hons), FGA, DGA
JEWELLERY
SPECIALIST
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SARAH HARDY, LL.B(Hons), PJ.DIP, FGA, DGA
JEWELLERY
CONSULTANT
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CATALOGUER,
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9.30AM
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9.30AM
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THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE ANTHONY PHILLIPS
(1945-2024)
FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2025 AT 1.00PM
AUCTION
The Auction Centre, Leyburn North Yorkshire DL8 5SG
VIEWING
Sunday 9 November 11.00am to 3.00pm
Monday 10 November 11.00am to 3.00pm
Tuesday 11 November 11.00am to 3.00pm
Wednesday 12 November 11.00am to 3.00pm
Thursday 13 November 11.00am to 3.00pm
Friday 14 November 8.00am to 1.00pm
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FRONT COVER
Anthony in the Strongroom at Christie’s, October 1969 image courtesy of the family
Life with a Silver Lining
by Harry Williams-Bulkeley, International Head of Silver Department, Christie’s
In an age when five years in a job is seen as a long time the career of the international silver and object-of-vertu expert Anthony Phillips appears all the more extraordinary, having worked for the international fine art auctioneers Christie’s for over 56 years.
Despite having just completed a geography degree he chose to join Christie's in 1967, initially working on the front desk for the princely sum of £5. His calm and studious manner caught the eye of the legendary Arthur Grimwade, director of the Silver Department, who had joined in 1932.
Phillips soon catalogued the monthly sales supported by the boom in the antique silver market. In this role he quickly developed his "eye" for great objects and benefited from assisting Grimwade with the proofing of his magnum opus, London Goldsmiths, their Marks and Lives. His quiet charm helped. Even the sharp-tongued James Lees Milne wrote in his diaries how charming the ‘young silver expert from Christie's’ had been.
His great break came in 1976 when he was chosen as one of the five experts sent to open Christie's first saleroom in New York. The new auction team took on their long-time rivals
Sotheby's, whose acquisition of the New York firm, ParkeBernet, in 1964 had given them a head start.
In England, Christie's was a household name, but in New York, all business had to be hunted down and competed for. Phillips had an early piece of luck - combined with an expert hunch –in the extraordinary Charles I goblet he traced back to the Mayflower pilgrim and first governor of the Plymouth Colony, William Bradford. This find and its lucrative sale helped cement Christie’s reputation in the US market.
Despite a disability following a teenage illness and operation, which made physical exertion difficult, Phillips spent twenty years in New York flourishing in a strong market. His curiosity and love for the subject expanded his knowledge well beyond the confines of British silversmithing. He was at his happiest unravelling the history behind 15th-century reliquaries, an obscure German hallmark or a Spanish chalice.
He eventually oversaw the auctions of silver, objects of vertu and Russian works of art in New York, London, Geneva, Rome, Amsterdam and Paris. His fear of flying, acquired from his mother, had to be overcome to allow visits to clients and auctions on four continents, his nerves unassuaged by
Anthony with a colleague examining a silver cup, image courtesy of the family
occasionally sharing a pair of first-class seats with an Imperial Fabergé egg or medieval reliquary.
His reputation and knowledge helped secure the sales from great collections formed by the banker and voracious collector Pierpont Morgan in 1986 and others. In 1988 he sold extraordinary treasures from the shipwrecked Spanish galleon Atocha. A landmark auction in 1990 for The Republic of the Philippines Foundation for Good Government consisted of the magnificent silver amassed by the deposed Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.
Many of the great silver collectors of the later 20th century looked to him for advice, including the late Audrey Love, née Guggenheim, whose collection he catalogued and published as Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, with his friend and colleague Jeanne Sloane. At the age of 100, Mrs Love donated her Napoleonic silver to the French state, with Phillips and Sloane organising the sale of her magnificent Regency silver at Christie's after her death.
His return to London in 1996 led to further highlights; the sales from diamond magnate Sir Julius Wernher's mansion Luton Hoo in 2000 and the Austrian Rothschild family in the same year. In 2003 he worked with descendants of the Gutman family to sell three spectacular works restituted to them by the Dutch government years after Nazi seizure.
His greatest sale took place in 2009. Held at the Grand Palais, Paris he sold the magnificent silver from the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé collection. The public viewing lasted from early morning until well beyond midnight, with crowds queueing for hours in the Parisian winter. The silver section alone totalled a record-breaking €19.8 million, in a sale of over €370 million.
Born in Hampstead in 1945 Phillips was the second son of Eric Phillips, a senior civil servant and the celebrated artist and illustrator artist Phyllis Bray, a prominent member of the pre-war East London Group and post war London Group of artists.
His early education at the Hall Preparatory School in Hampstead and later at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford gave him little insight into the art world, but his mother's artistic career and her interest in Renaissance jewellery led Anthony to pursue a career in the decorative arts. Further inspiration came from his godmother, the Renaissance jewellery scholar and Metropolitan Museum curator
Anthony with The Johann Friedrich Baer Cup, image courtesy of Christie’s
Yvonne Hackenbroch. Bittersweetly Anthony organised the sale of his mother's celebrated collection in December 1989, which enabled her to be cared for at home in her final years with Parkinson's Disease.
Anthony retired from Christie's in 2009 having trained and mentored many future specialists. He remained a much appreciated and admired consultant to the firm, travelling to sales when possible, until ill-health prevented it. He remained close to Christie’s, researching obscure marks, offering sage advice and advising on valuations. In his funeral address, his brother recounted helping Phillips check work emails whilst gravely ill in hospital after the fall which precipitated his passing.
His great passion for the works of art was evident through his deep knowledge and expertise, lightly worn. He was admired and liked by colleagues, clients, academics and dealers. He was quietly spoken with an infectious sense of humour and a fund of stories about the people, places and situations he had encountered during his long career; from failing to recognise an exiled King to handling Imperial Fabergé eggs.
He is survived by his wife Sara, son Luke and daughter Isobel.
2002
A Mesopotamian Lapis Lazuli Cylinder Seal, Late 3rd Millennium B.C., Retailed by Asprey, 166 Bond Street with an offering scene of worshippers approaching a seated deity, with two line cuneiform inscription, in fitted gilt-tooled leather-covered case the cylinder seal 25mm long
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£300-500
2001
A Greek Ring, Possibly 3rd Century B.C. the oval bezel engraved with a standing female goddess, to a plain polished shank finger size K½
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024). £1,000-1,500
2003
An Egyptian Agate Child’s Ring, Possibly Ancient the conical banded agate with a flat top, in a rubbed over tapering cylindrical mount, to a grooved shank finger size A (approximately)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£250-350
2004
A Roman Ring, Possibly 3rd Century A.D. the oval bezel depicitng a figure representing Victory standing on an elephant and holding a wreath above a warrior, to a broad shoulder plain polished shank finger size G (approximately)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2005
A Roman Parcel Gilt Ring, Possibly 3rd Century A.D. the bezel inset with a yellow circular plaque chased with a radiated bust between two standing figures, to a broad tapering shank finger size L½
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2006
Two Medieval Rings, Probably English, 14th or 15th Century one with an octagonal bezel engraved with Gothic initials JP within a rope twist border; the other with a circular bezel depicting a geometric form similar to a W with the sun above and crescent moon below, the shank decorated with hatching finger size S½ and T½
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
2007
An Early Medieval Ring the oval plaque depicting St John the Baptiste with the lamb and flag, to a plain polished shank finger size E½ (approximately)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2009
An Intaglio Ring and Another, The First Probably 3rd Century AD, The Second Probably Roman, 2nd Century AD the first inset with a hardstone intaglio, depicting a standing figure of a male god, the second with an oval bezel depicting a standing figure holding a model of a ship finger size F½ and O½ (approximately, sizing band fitted)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£120-180
2008
A Metal Ring, Possibly Late 16th/Early 17th Century the circular glass plaque within a bezel setting, with a fluted underbezel and scroll and plinth shoulders, to a plain polished shank finger size K½
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£40-60
2010
Two Rings
comprising of a Medieval signet ring, the circular plaque engraved with a fleur-de-lys motif within a circular fluted border, the shoulders with moulded lozenges, possibly 15th century; and the circular plaque depicting Christ riding a donkey, in early Christian style, possibly Byzantine finger size Q½ and V, respectively
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£300-500
2011
A Roman Ring, Possibly 3rd Century B.C. the oval agate intaglio depicting a standing figure, possibly representing Minerva, in a yellow bezel setting, to a plain polished shank finger size K
Provenance: Yvonne Hackenbroch (1912-2012), who gifted to Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£1,500-2,500
2012
An Amethyst Intaglio Ring, The Intaglio Possibly Roman the oval amethyst intaglio depicting a standing classical figure, in a later plain polished frame, flanked by two openwork brackets to a plain polished shank finger size D½
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£250-350
2013
A Renaissance Enamel Ring, Late 16th/Early 17th Century the raised oval garnet in a box mount, the sides decorated with trefoil motifs enamelled in black and white, with scrolling foliate shoulders, to a plain polished shank finger size I½
Provenance: The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£300-500
2012
Phyllis Bray (1911-1991), Anthony's mother, was born in Norwood in west London to William de Bray, a British diplomat, who served at one point as an attaché to the court of the mother of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Despite her father being in the Civil Service Phyllis was to pursue her passion for art, rather than following in his footsteps. She was to receive a scholarship to study at the Slade School of Art from 1927 to 1931, where her tutor was Henry Tonks and where she was to receive several prizes for her work.
In 1933, after she had finished her studies at the Slade she was elected to the London Group and also married her first husband, the artist John Cooper and together they were to become core members
of the East London Group. Bray was known for her landscapes, which she painted in both oils and watercolours, and for her murals. For over forty years Bray worked with the muralist Hans Feibusch painting in churches across Britain. A series of twelve murals, completed in 1964, by Feibusch and Bray, in the central hall of Newport Civic Centre depicts the history of Newport. She also worked on a number of solo projects, such as the three murals, on Music, Drama and Ballet, she produced for the People's Palace on the Mile End Road in east London. These works were thought to have been destroyed but large sections of them were rediscovered, under layers of later painting, when the building was acquired by Queen Mary University of London and are now on display again. A mural Bray painted for St Crispin's Church in Bermondsey remains intact.
Besides her painting and murals Bray was also a regarded book illustrator, working for Oxford University Press and Faber & Faber, among others, also designing posters for the likes of London Transport and advertisements B.P. and for the John Lewis Partnership. Bray exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1950, 1952, 1955 and in 1960 and her work was included in group shows at the Leicester Galleries in London and she had solo shows Drian Gallery in London and the Mignion Gallery in Bath. The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Blackpool Art Gallery, New College, Oxford, and the UK Government Art Collection hold examples of her work.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Bray built up a collection of jewellery, mostly from the medieval and Renaissance periods, an interest which no doubt inspired Anthony to follow his career path which saw him join Christie's. Some 80 lots from collection were later to be sold at Christie's in December 1989.
Phyllis Bray: Artist, Illustrator, and Collector of Historic Jewellery
Anthony with his mother Phyllis, circa 1965, image courtesy of the family
Phyllis Bray, Farmgate, dated (19)47, image courtesy of Tennants
2014
A Group of Mounted Hardstone Amulets, comprising a silver-mounted natural rock crystal example, the hexagonal mount with suspension loop, late 17th/early 18th century, 40mm high excluding suspension ring; a silver-mounted white and brown agate example, oblong, tapering and cut with two reeded bands, the mount with suspension ring possibly 17th century, 32mm high excluding suspension ring and a gold-mounted hardstone example of naturalistic form, 35mm high (3)
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2015
A Gold and Enamel Crucifix Pendant, Probably Spanish, First Half 17th Century
the cross on circular base, enamelled with a black flower head, the rough cross with notches, the white enamel figure of Christ with part pierced nimbus and above a part white enamelled skull, the reverse with shaped oval cartouche enamelled in red with a stylised representation of the five stigmata within white enamel border, with suspension ring and on short wirework chain the crucifix 60mm high including suspension ring, total gross weight 13dwt, 20.6gr
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£3,000-5,000
2016
A Silver-Mounted Rock Crystal Amulet or Pendant, Italian or Spanish, Early 17th Century
the carved rock crystal body carved as a fica hand and with a twisted cuff, the top of the conforming silver mount engraved with flower head and above engraved foliage, with a suspension ring
52mm long including suspension loop
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991), a gift to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£700-1,000
2017
A German Gold-Mounted Green Hardstone Etui, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1760 tapering cylindrical and with hinged cover, with shaped and reeded mounts, with diamond-mounted push-piece 10.5cm long
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£1,000-1,500
2018
A Cornelian Intaglio of a Roman Emperor, Mounted as a Brooch, The Intaglio 18th Century or Earlier, The Mount Later the irregularly formed stone deeply cut with a portrait bust facing left, with an inscription to the left edge, the plain mount with beading at intervals
40mm high
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£700-1,000
2019
A Charles II Rock Crystal Pendant, Circa 1680 the oval faceted rock crystal overlaid upon a brown woven ground of hair embroidered with two angels above the script initials RR in gilt thread, in a collet setting, with a plain polished suspension loop and bead decoration to the base measures 3.7cm by 2.2cm
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£400-600
2020
A George III Silver-Mounted Mother-of-Pearl Magnifying Glass, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1760
oval, the conforming lens with reeded silver mounts and folding into the case
80mm wide
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
2021
A Queen Anne Silver-Mounted Tortoiseshell Snuff-Box, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1710 oval, the hinged cover pique inlaid in motherof-pearl and silver with a grotesque mask beneath a stylised crown flanked by two birds, with further scrolling foliage and flowers, the sides plain silver and the base set with a plain tortoiseshell plaque
85mm wide
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£700-1,000
2022
A Roman Ring, Possibly 3rd Century B.C. the oval hardstone intaglio depicting Janus, in a yellow bezel setting, to a plain polished shank out of shape
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£800-1,200
2023
An 18th Century Intaglio Ring the oval banded agate intaglio depicting Leda and the Swan, to a later plain polished frame and shank finger size L1/2
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£400-600
2025
A Ring, Possibly Early Christian the circular plaque engraved with a crossed key and crook, to a plain polished shank finger size K½
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£500-700
2026
A Medieval Signet Ring, 15th Century the circular plaque engraved with Gothic lettering, possibly IP, with foliage in a circular frame, to a broad tapered shoulder plain polished shank finger size J½
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
2024
A Garnet Intaglio Swivel Ring, Probably late 18th Century the oval garnet intaglio depicting a standing naked female figure, probably Venus, the reverse faceted, in a yellow collet setting, to reeded forked shoulders and shank finger size J½
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£600-800
2027
A Red Glass Signet Ring, Circa 1800, The Glass Possibly Slightly Earlier the red glass depicting a coat-of-arms, comprising of three animal heads with a chevron between, in a collet setting with scalloped decoration, to a plain polished shank finger size O
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
2028
An Intaglio and Enamel Ring, Early 18th Century, The Intaglio Probably Classical the oval yellowish-orange hardstone intaglio depicting a standing classical warrior, in a yellow rubbed over setting with an engraved swirling fluted border, the reverse engraved with a flowerhead, the shoulders decorated with scrolling foliage and black enamel, to a plain polished shank finger size J1/2
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£400-600
2029
A Garnet Intaglio Ring, The Garnet 17th Century, The Mount Early 18th Century the emerald-cut garnet intaglio depicting a coat-of-arms in a rubbed over setting, with a fluted underbezel, to a plain polished shank finger size H½
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£400-600
2030
A Niello Ring, Possibly North Italian, Late 15th Century the circular bezel nielloed with a female portrait bust within a reeded border, with moulded shoulders on a plain polished shank finger size M½
2031
A Renaissance Turquoise and Enamel Ring, Possibly Second Half 16th Century the oval cabochon turquoise in a rubbed over setting, the edges and underside with green and white enamel decoration, the shoulders of foliate design finger size G½ (approximately)
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991).
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£700-1,000
2032
A Parcel Gilt Cut Steel Ring, Italian or Dutch, Late 16th/Early 17th Century the bezel and shoulders decorated with grotesque fluid masks, and the shaped shank decorated with flower heads, with a gilt interior finger size R½
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£500-700
Provenance:
The collection of Phyllis Phillips, née Bray (1911-1991) and by descent to her son Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£300-500
2028
2029
2030
2031
2032
2033
2033
Two Scandinavian Silver Spoons, The First Maker’s Mark LB, Dated 1723, The Second Apparently Unmarked, Mid-18th Century the first with flat stem and scroll shaped and engraved terminal, dated ‘1723’, further engraved with initials ‘E.K.S.’, the second with flat stem, engraved with foliage, the back of the bowl engraved with initials ‘RRS in wreath; Together With a German or Scandinavian silver table-spoon, maker’s mark AE, town mark three stars, possibly by Albertus Edden, Norden, mid-18th century, the shaped top of the flat stem engraved with a flower, the reverse prick engraved with initials ‘DHJ’ over ‘EK’ over ‘JB’, the bowl with rat tail 21.5cm long and smaller, 3oz 9dwt, 107gr (2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2034
A Scandinavian Silver Spoon, Struck With an Unidentified Maker’s Mark, Probably Norwegian or Swedish, Circa 1600 the fig-shaped bowl partly engraved with foliage, the shaped stem further engraved with foliage and double reeding, the cast double-sided cartouche-shaped finial centred by cherub masks within scrolling foliage, with moulded double-reeded band below and surmounted by foliage and baluster finial 15.2cm long, 1oz, 32gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£600-800
2035
A Norwegian Silver Spoon, by Herman Wickman, Bergen, Circa 1650 the front of the stem with central flute and cast acanthus bud finial, the back of the bowl engraved with a housemark in foliage engraved shield and within initials ‘WO’, below further initials ‘C’ over ‘ES’ 17.8cm long, 1oz 15dwt, 54gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£700-1,000
2036
A Scandinavian Silver Spoon, Maker’s Mark N or Z Struck Twice, Mid17th Century the front of the stem with central flute and cast acanthus bud finial, the back of the bowl engraved with initials ‘SIS’ over ‘MPD’
17.2cm long, 1oz 15dwt, 55gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£500-800
2037
Swedish & Finnish Silver Reference Books
Borg (Tyra), Guld- och Silversmeder I Finland: Deras Stamplar och Arbeten, 1373-1873, Malmö: Tidningsbokhandeln, 1977, original boards; Holmquist (Kersti, et al), Hallwylska Silversamlingen: The Hallwyl Collection of Silver, Stockholm: Hallwylska Museet, 1999, original boards;
Andrén (Erik, et al), Svenkst Silversmide 1520-1850: Guld- och Silverstämplar, Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1963, original leatherbacked cloth gilt; Four others. (7)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2038
Danish Antiques Reference Books
Hein (Jørgen), The Treasure Collection at Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009, three volumes, original boards, dust jackets, slipcase. (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£60-90
2039
Norwegian Silver Reference Books
Tandberg (Sigrid Wegge), Norsk Sølv, Gullsmeder Gjennom 600ÅR, Cappelen Damm, 2013, original boards, dust jacket; Storesund (Hans Johan), 100 Norske Sølvskjeer, 1580-1780, Antik 7, 1993, original boards, dust jacket; Five others. (7)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2040
Danish Silver Reference Books
Bøje (Chr. A.), Dankse Guld og Sølv Smedemaerker før 1870, Copenhagen: Politikens, 1979-1982, three volumes, original boards, dust jacket; Boesen (Gudmund) & Bøje (Chr. A.), Old Danish Silver, Copenhagen: Hassing, 1949, original boards, dust jacket; Two others. (6)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£60-90
2041
A Swedish Silver Meat-Dish, by Henrik Wittkopf the Elder, Stockholm, 1752
shaped oblong and with moulded border, the back prick-engraved with initials ‘SR’
38.2cm wide, 29oz 18dwt, 930gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£1,200-1,800
2042
A Danish Silver Box, by Zønnik Hansen Buxlund, Aarhus, Circa 1715
circular, the pull-off cover with engraved with a cypher within foliage, the sides chased with foliage scrolls and shells on a textured ground, with crimped borders
10.3cm diameter, 6oz 8dwt, 199gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£300-500
2041
2042
2043
A Swiss Parcel-Gilt Silver Spoon, by Heinrich I Wirth, Zurich, Circa 1690 the facetted slightly tapering handle with gilt caryatid bust-cast finial, the oval bowl with rat-tail 16.5cm long, 1oz, 31gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£500-800
2044
A Swiss Gold and Enamel Zarf, for the Turkish Market, Apparently Unmarked, Geneva, Circa 1830 on spreading circular foot with waved border, enamelled in black and white with foliage, the lower section of the partly openwork body similarly enamelled, the sides set with three enamel panels painted in pale blue and grey with musical and love trophies, within applied fruiting vines and foliage, the waved rim enamelled in black and turquoise blue with flower heads and scrolling foliage 53mm high, gross weight 16dwt, 25gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£1,500-2,500
2045
A Swiss Parcel-Gilt Silver Spoon, Maker’s Mark Indistinct, Perhaps Zurich, Circa 1690 the stem cast with a female caryatid finial, the back of the bowl later engraved with initials ‘HSHB’ and flowers 17.2cm long, 1oz dwt, 37gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2043
2044
2046
Swiss Silver Reference Books
Lösel (Eva-Maria), Zürcher Goldschmiede Kunst, vom 13. bis zum 19.Jahrhundert, Zurich: Berichthaus, 1983, original boards, dust jacket;
Wyss (Robert L.), Handwerkskunst in Gold und Silber, Bern: Stämpfli & Cie., 1996, original boards, dust jacket; Lanz (Hanspeter), Weltliches Silber 2: Katalog der Sammlung des Schweizerischen Landesmuseums Zürich, 2001, original boards; Nine others. (12)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£60-90
2047
Baltic Silver Reference Books
Lightbown (R.W.), Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1974, original wrappers; Leistikow (Annelore), Baltisches Silber, Lüneburg: Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1996, original boards, dust jacket; Ehrnrooth (Carl), Baltic Silver: Silver Treasures from Livonia, Estonia and Courland, Helsinki: AB Stockholms Auktionsverk and The Museum of Applied Arts, 1991, original boards; Four others. (7)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2048
Silver Reference Books
A Quantity of Assorted Silver Reference Books, including British silver, American silver, Scottish silver, French silver, country house collections, Paul Storr, etc. (Qty)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024). See illustration online
£70-100
2049
Silver Reference Books
Rosenberg (Marc), Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, Berlin: Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt A.-G., 1922-28, four volumes, cloth gilt; Beuque (Emile), Dictionnaire des Poinçons Officiels Français & Étrangers, Anciens & Modernes, de leur Création (XIVe siècle) a nos jours, F. de Nobele, 1984, two volumes, cloth; And others, including Jackson’s Silver and Gold marks. (19)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£80-120
2050
Austrian Silver Reference Books
Neuwirth (Waltraud), Wiender Silber. 1524-1780 [and] 1781-1866, Vienna: Dr. Waltraud Neuwirth, 2002, two volumes, original boards, dust jackets; Koeppe (Wolfram), Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Service Rediscovered, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010, original boards, dust jacket; Three others. (6)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2051
Russian Silver Reference Books
Ivanov (A.N.), Gold and Silversmiths in Russia, 1600-1926: A guide for art experts, Moscow: Russian National Museums, 2002, two volumes, original cloth gilt; Solodkoff (Alexander von), Orfèvrerie Russe, du XVIIe au XIXe Siècle, Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1981, original cloth, dust jacket; Ten others. (13)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£40-60
2046
2052
Silver Reference Books - Collections
Schroder (Timothy), British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Ashmolean, 2009, three volumes, original boards, dust jackets; Hackenbroch (Yvonne), English and other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, revised edition, Greenwich: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (distributed by the New York Graphic Society), original cloth-backed boards, gilt; Read (Sir Hercules) & Tonnochy (A.B.), Catalogue of the Silver Plate Mediaeval and Later Bequeathed to the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks..., London: British Museum, 1928, original cloth; Eleven others. (16)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2053
Spanish and Portuguese Silver Reference Books
Fernández (Alejandro, et al), Marcas de la Plata Española y Virreinal, Madrid: Antiqvaria, 1992, original cloth gilt; Martín (Cristina Esteras), La Platería de la Colección Várez Fisa: Obras Escogidas Siglos XV-XVIII, Madrid: Tf. Editores, 2000, original boards; Valdovinos (José Manuel Cruz), Platería Europea en España, 13001700, Fundacion Central Hispano, 1997, original wrappers; And others. (15)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2054
Central European Silver Reference Books
Elemér (Kszeghy), Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungrans, von Mittelalter bis 1867, Budapest: Kiralyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, 1936, presentation copy inscribed by the author, contemporary half leather (worn); Stehlíková (Dana), Encyklopedie Ceského Zlatnictvi, Stribrnictvi a Klenotnictvi, Prague: Nakladatelstvi, 2003, original boards; Frackowska (Anna), Gdansk Silver Tankards of the 17th and 18th Centuries: Typology, Styles, Iconography, Warsaw: Zamek Krolewski, 2013, original boards, dust jacket; Thirteen others. (16)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£50-80
2055
Italian Silver Reference Books
Bulgari (Constantino G.), Argentieri Gemmari e Orafi d’Italia, Rome: Lorenzo del Turco [and others], 1958-1959, four volumes, original boards, three with dust jackets; Catello (Eio & Corrado), Argenti Napoletani dal XVI al XIX Secolo, Edizioni D’Arte Giannini, 1973, original boards, dust jacket; Eight others, including one on Malta. (13)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2057
2056
A German Parcel-Gilt Silver Coin-Set Beaker (Munzbecher), Probably by Gebrüder Müller, Berlin, Circa 1750 the bell-shaped bowl on spreading rim foot, the body set with three bands of coins, interspersed with rococo style scrolls, the plain rim incised with lines 10cm high, 4oz 7dwt, 136gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£700-1,000
A German Silver-Gilt Box, Apparently Unmarked, Probably Augsburg or Nuremburg, Circa 1670
compressed oval, engraved on each side with two circular medallions, each within German inscription, the first with a heart pierced with an arrow; the second with twinned hearts; the third with a winged heart and the final with a heart beneath God in the heavens, all within scrolling foliage, with reeded border 50mm wide, 11dwt, 17gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£250-350
2058
A German Silver Caster, Maker’s Mark HS or SH, Wolfenbüttel, First Quarter 18th Century of lighthouse form and on slightly spreading stepped base, the bayonetmounted cover pierced and with ball finial 12.5cm high, 4oz 9dwt, 138gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£300-500
2056
2057
2059
A German Silver Trefid Teaspoon, by Johann Martin Schmidt, Augsburg, 1701-1705 the back of the oval bowl with rat-tail, the front and back of the handle each engraved with fruiting foliage within reeded band and with plain border
10.5cm long, 8dwt, 13gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2060
A German Parcel-Gilt Silver Apostle-Spoon, by Gottfried Schmidt, Breslau, Circa 1700 the finial formed as the cast figure of St. James the Greater with his staff, hat and book, the tapering facetted stem with cast cherub’s mask at point of connection to the bowl, with the deep oval bowl, later engraved with an English coat-of-arms
19cm long, 1oz 9dwt, 46gr
Provenance:
The Northiam Antique Show, circa 1975 where acquired by Anthony Phillips. The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
The later arms are those of Hodges.
£500-800
2061
A German Parcel-Gilt Silver Spoon, Maker’s Mark Indistinct, Liegnitz, Circa 1700 with scroll and caryatid bust finial, the facetted slightly tapering stem engraved with a German inscription, with cherub’s mask at the point of connection to the bowl, with the deep bowl, the back of the bowl engraved with initials ‘IS’ or ‘SI’, the bowl later engraved with an English coat-of-arms
20.2cm long, 1oz 14dwt, 54gr
Provenance:
The Northiam Antique Show, circa 1975 where acquired by Anthony Phillips. The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
The later arms are those of Hodges.
£500-800
2059
2060
2062
German Silver Reference Books - Lower Saxony & Berlin
Scheffler (Wolfgang), Goldschmiede Niedersachsnes, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1965, two volumes, original cloth gilt; Idem, Berliner Goldschmiede, Berlin: Bruno Hessling, 1968, original cloth.
(3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024). £50-80
2063
German Silver Reference Books
Scheffler (Wolfgang), Goldschmiede Mittel- und Nordost-Deutschlands, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1980, original boards, dust jacket; Idem, Goldschmiede Ostpreussens, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1983, original boards, dust jacket; Idem, Goldschmiede Oberfrankens, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1989, original boards, dust jacket; Idem, Goldschmiede An Main und Neckar, Hannover: Kunst und Antiquitäten, 1977, original boards, dust jacket; Idem, Goldschmiede des Ostallgäus, Hannover: Kunst und Antiquitäten, 1981, original boards, dust jacket. (5)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024). £80-120
2064
German Silver Reference Books - Rhineland, Westphalia & Hessen Scheffler (Wolfgang), Goldschmiede Rheinland-Westfalens, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1973, two volumes, original cloth gilt (volume 2 lacking backstrip); Idem, Goldschmiede Hessens, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1976, original cloth gilt. (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2065
German Silver Reference Books Clasen (Carl-Wilhelm), Rheinische Silbermarken: Die MArken und Werke de rheinischen Goldschmiede, Rheinbach-Merzbach: CMZ, 1986, original cloth; Zeitzschel (Bernt), Die Gold- und Silberschmiede im östlichen Schleswig-Holstein, von Flensburg bis Burg auf Fehmarn, Neumünster: Wachholtz, 1998, original boards; Neuhaus (Reiner) & Schmidberger (Ekkehard), Kasseler Silber, Eurasburg: Edition Minerva, 1998, original wrappers; Two others. (5)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£40-60
2062
2063
2064
2065
2066
German Silver Reference Books - Braunschweig (Brunswick)
Spies (Gerd), Braunschweiger Goldschmiede, Munich & Berlin: Klinkhardt & Bierman, 1996, three volumes, original boards, dust jackets, slipcase. (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2067
German Silver Reference Books - Nuremberg Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst, 1541-1868, Nuremberg: Germanuschen Nationalmuseums, 2007, two volumes (volume 1 Meister, Werke Marken, parts 1 and 2), original pictorial boards; Kohlhaussen (Heinrich), Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst des Mittelalters und der Dürerzeit 1240 bis 1540, Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1968, original cloth gilt. (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024)..
£30-50
2068
German Reference Books
Mette (Hanns-Ulrich), Der Nautiluspokal: Wie Kunst und Natur miteinander spielen, Munich/Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1995, original boards, dust jacket; Roeck (Bernd), Ketzer, Küstler und Dämonen: Die Welten des Goldschmieds David Altenstetter, Munich: C.H. Beck, 2009, original boards, dust jacket; Hoyer (Eva Maria), Sächsischer Serpentin: Ein Stein und seine Verwendung, Edition Leipzig, 1996, original card wrappers; Thirty-one others. (34)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online £60-90
2069
German Silver Reference Books - Hamburg Schliemann (Erich, publisher), Die Goldschmiede Hamburgs, Hamburg: Schliemann & Cie, 1985, three volumes, number 517 of 1000 copies, original blind-stamped cloth. (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£80-120
2070
German Silver Reference Books - Augsburg Seling (Helmut), Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868, Munich: C.H.Beck, 1980, three volumes, original blind-stamped boards, two with dust jackets; Seelig (Lorenz), Silver and Gold: Courtly Splendour from Augsburg, Munich: Prestel, 1995, original boards, dust jacket; Three others. (7)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2066
2067
2069
2070
2071
A German Silver-Gilt Salt-Spoon, by Lewin Dedeke, Celle, Circa 1715 with fluted top to the tapering stem, the back engraved with initials ‘G’[eorgious] ‘P’[rinceps] below the Prince of Wales’ feathers and the motto ‘Ich Dien’ 12.5cm long, 15dwt, 24gr
Provenance:
George, Prince of Wales, later King George II of England and Elector of Hanover (r.17271760) and by descent in the Royal family of Great Britain and Hanover until the death of King William IV in 1837, at which time the two kingdoms became separate under different monarchs.
Ernest Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (r.1837-1851), fifth son of King George III of Great Britain and brother of King William IV and by descent to his grandson
The Duke of Brunswick (1845-1923) on whose death much of the Hanoverian silver was sold to Gluckselig, Vienna.
Duane Voth, by whom gifted to Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150 2071
2072
A German Silver Small Tray, by Johann Conrad Otersen, Hamburg, Probably 1762-1769 shaped oblong and with moulded border and two flower and foliage-cast handles 22.2cm long, 6oz 14dwt, 208gr
Provenance: Yvonne Hackenbroch (1912-2012) by whom gifted to Anthony Phillips. The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£400-600
2073
A German Parcel-Gilt Silver Trencher-Salt, by Carl Samuel Bettkober, Augsburg, 1765-1767 shaped oblong and on four scroll and foliage-stamped feet, the gilt well oval 82mm wide, 2oz 14dwt, 84gr
Provenance: The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (19452024).
£70-100
2072
2073
2074
A German Silver and Wood Basting-Spoon, Maker’s Mark Probably GH, Emmerich, 1697
the back of the oval bowl with rat-tail and engraved with initials ‘I.A.G.’, the top of the handle socket with moulded band below pierced and engraved foliage, with baluster ebonised wood handle 48cm long
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£600-800
2075
A German Silver Soup-Ladle, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1760 the top of the stem with applied rococo scrolls, the circular bowl with moulded reeded border 38.8cm long, 8oz 8dwt, 262gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
2076
A German Silver Basting-Spoon, by Albrecht Bernhard Muller, Augsburg, 1761-1763
Fiddle Thread pattern, with oval bowl 34cm long, 5oz 16dwt, 181gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2077
An Italian Silver Spoon, With Indistinct Marks, First Half 18th Century the octagonal hoof-end terminal engraved with initials ‘AG’ within ‘GC’, the oval bowl with rat-tail 16.5cm long, 1oz, 31gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2075
2076
2077
2078
A Quantity of Jewellery Boxes including ring boxes, travelling cases etc, labelled Bentley & Co, S Lampard & Son Ltd, Boucheron, Shapland, H Knowles-Brown Ltd, Garrard & Co Ltd etc
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2079
A Silver Reliquary Crucifix Pendant, Probably Italian, 17th Century with openwork trefoil terminals and ring top, engraved with Christ on the cross, the reverse with the instruments of the Crucifixion, a screw in the base detaches to allow the front to be removed, revealing compartments 75mm high, 9dwt, 14gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2080
A Gold Pendant Crucifix, Probably Spanish, Early 17th Century with applied Corpus with pierced shaped trefoil terminals and foliage spandrels, the hatched reverse with traces of enamel, with suspension loop 53mm high, including suspension loop, 6dwt, 9.6gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£800-1,200
2081
An Italian Gilt-Metal Mounted and Coral-Set Pendant, Probably 17th Century shaped oval, the centre set with a cameo of a female portrait bust, cracked, the border set with ten ribbed circular and oval beads, with suspension loop 45mm high
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£60-70
2082
A Glass Signet Ring, The Glass 17th Century, The Mount Mid-18th Century the octagonal yellow/orange glass depicting a coat-of-arms, in a rubbed over setting, with a fluted back and pierced scrolling shoulders finger size H1/2 (approximately, sizing band fitted)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£250-400
2083
A William III Rock Crystal Pendant, Circa 1700 the heart shaped faceted rock crystal in a plain polished frame, with a circular suspension loop measures 3.0cm by 2.1cm
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£400-600
2084
A Diamond Brooch, of stylised floral form, the central openwork cluster set throughout with rose cut diamonds, flanked by similarly set leaf motifs, in white collet settings, total estimated diamond weight 1.00 carat approximately measures 3.6cm by 2.9cm
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£250-350
2085
A Synthetic Sapphire and Diamond Brooch, the stylised serpent set throughout with graduated old cut diamonds, one end terminating to an oval cabochon synthetic sapphire, in white claw and rubbed over settings, total estimated diamond weight 0.50 carat approximately length 4.7cm
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2086
A Quartz Brooch and A Paste Brooch, Early 19th Century four oval purple quartz arranged in a cross formation, in collet settings with closed back settings; and the round cut purple paste within a border of pear cut colourless paste, in white collet closed back settings measure 4.2cm by 3.1cm and 3.5cm by 3.5cm respectively
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2087
A Spanish Gold and Enamel Plaque, Circa 1600 oval and applied with a gold figure of the Virgin in high relief, depicted standing on a crescent and clouds, her royal blue and white dress enriched with gold stars, the yellow ground with sun rays 30mm high
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
2088
Three Paste Brooches comprising of a stylised flowerhead example, the round cut colourless paste to eight radial arms similarly set with colourless paste; a shoe buckle set throughout with colourless paste; and a converted shoe buckle set throughout with paste imitating citrine and opal measures 3.1cm diameter, 4.3cm by 2.7cm and 5.2cm and 2.8cm, respectively
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2078
2079
2080
2082
2081
2083
2087
2084
2085
2088
2089
A George III Gold-Mounted Grey Agate Fob-Seal, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1780
oval, the seal cut with a classical philosopher’s head, the tapering agate handle facetted and with reeded mount, with suspension ring 40mm high including suspension ring
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£120-180
2090
A Framed Wax Plaque of George Canning, Signed Indistinctly, Attributed to Charles Harvey Weigall, First Half 19th Century depicted in profile facing left, in a burgundy vernis martin frame with brass foliage cast hanging mount the frame 12.2cm wide by 14cm high
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£60-80
2091
Three Various Silver Fob-Seals, comprising a George III oval example, Birmingham, 1796, engraved with initials, possibly JC, 28mm high; a German example, circa 1760, engraved with a coat-of-arms, with fluted back and shell handle, 28mm high and an Islamic example, rectangular, set with a brown hardstone carved with an Arabic inscription, 25mm high (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2089
2090
2093
2092
A George I Silver-Gilt Plaque, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1725 circular, finely chased with a scene of Alexander the Great greeting Diogenes seated on a barrel, the border chased with masks in scalework panels within scrolls and floral swags
68mm diameter, 13dwt, 20gr
Provenance:
Christie’s, New York, 16 April 1985, lot 627, where purchased by Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
A German Silver Pendant and an Italian Silver Pendant, Each Apparently Unmarked, The First Dated 1719, The Second Dated 1606 the first oval, chased with a head of Jesus within pierced flower and foliage border, with suspension ring, the back engraved with a German inscription, the second lozenge shaped, chased with the crowning of the Virgin within pierced scroll border, with triple suspension chain, engraved with a date and initials Together With an English plaque, engraved with a coat-of-arms, with pinning holes, circa 1680 11cm high including chain and smaller (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£120-180
2094
A German Silver Coffin-Shield, Apparently Unmarked, Dated 1727 cartouche-shaped and with suspension ring, the oval raised centre engraved with Daniel in the lion’s den with the arm of God issuing from a cloud and holding an anchor above, with a German inscription 13.5cm high, 1oz 8dwt, 43gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£300-500
2092
2093
2094
2095
2095
Two Pairs of George III Cut-Steel ShoeBuckles, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1800 one pair oblong and one pair oval 57mm wide and slightly smaller (4)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£50-80
2096
A Continental Silver Snuff-Box, Struck With Three Unidentified Marks, Probably South Italian, Circa 1739 cartouche-shaped, the hinged cover with central oval indentation, engraved with trelliswork and scrolls 72mm wide, 1oz 6dwt, 41gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2097
A German Silvered Pendant, The Chasing Signed With Initials ‘TS’, Perhaps 18th Century
heart-shaped, chased with the figures of St Michael on one side and St George on the other, with suspension loop 75mm high including suspension loop
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£50-80
2098
A Continental Silvered Reliquary and a Continental Brass Pendant, The First Probably 18th Century, The Second Apparently Dated 1821
each heart-shaped, one engraved with the Christogram, opens to reveal a compartment, with suspension loop, the other engraved with the Crucifixion and the Risen Christ, with suspension loop
65mm high including suspension loop and smaller (2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£50-80
2099
A Continental Silver Pendant, Apparently Unmarked, Possibly Dutch, Late 19th Century in the 18th century rococo style, cartoucheshaped and chased with the Holy Family within scrolls, surmounted by a coronet, with suspension loop
75mm high including suspension loop, 17dwt, 27gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2100
A Pinchbeck Medal Commemorating Admiral Edward Vernon’s Capture of Porto Bello, Dated 1739
the obverse depicting Admiral Vernon standing on a platform, in cocked hat, facing left and receiving a sword, the reverse depicting a view of Porto Bello harbour and ships, each side with an inscription; Together With a further medallion, engraved with depictions of saints, probably Saint Maxim and Saint Magdale and a silver-mounted coin pendant (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£120-180
2101
A Queen Anne Silver Counter-Box, Maker’s Mark H? or ?H Only, Circa 1710 cylindrical, the pull-off cover stamped with a portrait of Queen Anne flanked by initials ‘QA’, with plain sides and base 25mm diameter
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2097 2098
2099
2102
2102
A Louis XVI Two Colour Gold, Jewelled and Enamel Bonbonnière, by August-Gaspard Turmine, Paris, 1784-85
circular, the pull-off cover with central almandine garnet cameo carved with the mask of a faun depicted en face and flanked by coloured enamelled laurel foliage sprays, ropework and with an outer diamondset frame, the translucent deep yellow/orange enamel ground over engine-turning with two-colour gold ropework border 75mm diameter
Provenance:
Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820-1886), Frankfurt and by descent to his daughter
Emma Louise von Rothschild (1844-1935), who married her cousin Nathaniel Mayer, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840-1915) and by descent to his grandson Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910-1990).
The Lord Rothschild, G.B.E., G.M., F.R.S.; Christie’s London, 20 June 1982, lot 22.
A Collection of Presentation Snuff-Boxes; Sotheby’s, London, 6 February 2019, lot 29, where acquired by Anthony Phillips. The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
Literature:
Recorded among the gold boxes in the collection of Mayer Carl von Rothschild, circa 1886, at 15 Untermainquai, Frankfurt in the Yellow Room, case two, roughly translated from the original German as ‘83
Another [circular bonbonnière] yellow, round, on the cover a ruby carved with a mask in brilliant framing. diam 7cm’
£5,000-8,000
2103
Rothschild Family - Catalogues and Books
The Collection of the Barons Nathaniel and Albert von Rothschild, Christie’s London, 1999, original boards; Read (Charles Hercules), The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art Bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild M.P., 1898, London: British Museum, 1902, original cloth; Grandjean (Serge, et al), The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century, London: The National Trust, 1975, original cloth; Sixteen others. (17)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£80-120
2104
Gold Boxes and Jewellery Reference Books
Trumans (Charles), The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, original cloth; Snowman (A. Kenneth), Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1990, presentation inscription by the author, original cloth, dust jacket;
A Quantity of Others, including Renaissance jewellery, finger rings, jewels, objects of vertu, gold boxes, etc. (Qty)
See illustration online
£70-100
2105
A French Parcel-Gilt Silver Beaker (Rathsbecker), Probably by Joachim Webbe, Strasbourg, 1736-1750
tapering cylindrical and with flat base, the sides engraved with the coat-of-arms of the town of Obernai between the date 17-49, the rim engraved ‘Herr Matheus Hoffman Rathsherr’ 94mm high, 5oz, 146gr
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, 29 November 2007, lot 638. Bellman’s, 9 September 2021, lot 1393, where purchased by Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
Two very similar beakers, one from the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Strabourg and another from the Hôtel de Ville, Obernai are illustrated in H. Haug, Inventaire des Collections Publiques Françaises L’Orfèverie de Strasbourg , Paris, 1978, no. 81 and 82.
£2,500-3,500
2106
A Louis XV Silver Stirrup-Cup, by Pierre Sébille, Saumur, Circa 1700 oval, chased towards the lip on either side beneath the rim with a shaped oblong panel centred by a quatrefoil flanked by scrolls and flower heads, the raised end with looped festoons terminating at each side with pendant foliage and chased with baroque foliage and scroll cartouche engraved with a cypher
12.5cm long, 4oz 5dwt, 132gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
The maker’s mark, which is stuck three times on the present stirrup-cup, is illustrated by J. Helft, Le Poincons des Provinces Francaises, Paris, 1985, p.62, no. 174b. Helft records another piece with this makers’ marks struck three times by Sebille as ‘Maitre-Abonne’. Unlike their English counterparts who would strike only their maker’s marks as a means of avoiding paying tax French silversmiths would instead pay as ‘subscribermasters’ for the privilege of marking their own production. This would have shielded them from the risk and expense of sending their silver away for hallmarking.
£7,000-10,000
2105
2106
2107
A Spanish Silver Snuff-Box, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1713 cartouche-shaped, the raised moulded borders with scrolling foliage at intervals, the cover finely engraved with a central portrait bust of King Philip V of Spain (1683-1746), within a circular inscription and below crown, flanked by two demi-figures holding olive branches, flower festoons and lion’s masks below, the base similarly engraved with a portrait bust of his wife Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy (1688-1714) 80mm wide, 4oz 3dwt, 130gr
Provenance: with Jonathan Snellenburg Antiques, New York Armoury Show, circa 1995 where purchased by Anthony Phillips. The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£7,000-10,000
2107
2108
French Silver Reference Book
Pailloux (Elie), Orfèvres et Poinçons XVIIe-XVIIIe-XIXe S.: PoitouAngoumois - Aunis - Saintonge, La Rochelle: Librairie Pailloux, 1962, limited edition, number 294 of 420 copies, original wrappers.
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2109
French Silver Reference Book - Paris Bimbenet-Privat (Michèle) & Fontaines (Gabriel de), La Datation de L’Orfèvrerie Parisienne Sous L’Ancien Régime: Poinçons de jurande et poinçons de la Marque, 1507-1792, Paris: Paris Musées, 1995, original wrappers.
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2110
French Silver Reference Books
Dennis (Faith), Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver: Its Makers and Its Marks, San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, new edition, two volumes, original cloth, dust jackets; Lightbown (R.W.), Secular Goldsmiths’ Work in Medieval France: A History, London: The Society of Antiquaries, 1978, original cloth, dust jackets; Ten Others. (13)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£80-120
2111
French Silver Reference Books - Paris Arminjon (Catherine), Beaupuis (James) & Bilimoff (Michèle), Dictionnaire des Poinçons de Fabricants d’Ouvrages d’Or et d’Argent de Paris et de la Seine, two volumes, 1798-1838 & 1838-1875, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale Éditions, 1991 and 1994, original wrappers. (2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£40-60
2112
French Silver Reference Books - Lille Cartier (Nicole), Les Orfèvres de Lille, two volumes, Louvain: Éditions Peeters, 2007, original pictorial boards. (2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2113
Silver Reference Books - Belgium and Luxembourg
Dievoet (Walter van), Dictionnaire des Orfèvres de Bruxelles au XIXe siècle, Louvain: 2003, original wrappers; Baudouin (Piet, et. al), Orfevrerie en Belgique XVIe-XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, Paris/Gembloux: Editions Duculot, 1988, original boards, dust jacket; Die Silberkammer der Luxemburger Dynastie, Rheinbach: CMZ, 2012, original boards; Four others. (7)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£30-50
2112
2114
A Louis XV Silver-Gilt Snuff-Box, Maker’s Mark Indistinct, Paris, 1744-45, With Charge and Decharge of Antoine Leschaudel cartouche-shaped with shaped outlines and slightly receding base, the cover and base chased and engraved with intertwining diagonal parallel branches and scrolling flowers and foliage on a matted ground, the sides with canted corners, similarly engraved with scrolls and shellwork, with reeded border and slightly waved thumbpiece 83mm long, 3oz 9dwt, 107gr
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, 22 May 2001, lot 22. Christie’s, London, 5 December 2019, lot 6.
The Estate of Betty, Lady Grantchester, Dreweatt’s, 30 March 2021, lot 63, where purchased by Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£800-1,200
2115
A Louis XVI Silver Sugar-Sifting Spoon, by Pierre-Nicolas Somme, Paris, 1782
Fiddle and Thread pattern, the bowl pierced with scrolling foliage 22cm long, 3oz 5dwt, 102gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
2116
A Louis XVI Gold and Mother-of-Pearl
Travelling-Knife, Maker’s Mark EB, A Pellet Between and a Star Above, Orleans, Probably 1784
the tapering handle applied with mother-ofpearl and reeded gold lines and flowerheads, with a fluted gold cap, with interchangeable gold and steel blades, in fitted shagreencovered case the case 12.8cm long
Provenance:
Chorley’s, 10 November 2011, lot 308 where purchased by Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£800-1,200
2117
A French Silver Pill-Box, Maker’s Mark Indistinct, Second Half 19th Century
oblong, the hinged cover engraved with foliage and with foliage borders on an engine-turned ground, with reeded base; Together With a George III silver toothpick-box, by Thomas Edwards, London, 1817, oblong, the hinged cover with engine-turning centring a vacant cartouche, the base with further engine-turning, the sides reeded 80mm wide and smaller, 1oz 18dwt, 59gr (2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£70-100
2114
2115 2116
2118
French Silver Reference Books - Paris
Bimbenet-Privat (Michèle), Les Orfèvres et L’Orfèvrerie de Paris au XVIIe
Siècle, Paris: Paris Musées, 2002, two volumes, original pictorial boards;
Idem, Les Orfèvres Parisiens de la Renaissance 1506-1620, Paris: Commission des Travaux Historiques de la Ville de Paris, 1992, original pictorial boards. (2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£40-60
2119
French Silver Reference Books
Cartier (Nicole), Les Orfèvres de Douai, Douai: Musée de Douai, 1995, signed presentation inscription by the author on the title-page, original wrappers; Idem, L’Orfèvrerie de la Jurande d’Arras, Sous le Patronage de la Commission Départmentale d’Histoire et d’Archéologie du Pas-deCalais, 1983, signed presentation inscription by the author on the title-page, original boards, dust jacket; Cartier (Nicole) & Cartier-Stone (Isabelle), Les Orfèvres de Maubeuge aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Sièvcles, 2017, original wrappers. (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£50-80
2120
French Silver Reference Books - Provincial Dromantin (Jean and Jacques Clarke de), Les Orfevres de Bordeaux et la Marque fu Roy, Suresnes: Editions de Puygiron, 1987, original boards, dust jacket; Helft (Jacques), Le Poinçon des Provinces Françaises, Paris: Chez F. de Nobele, 1985, original boards, dust jacket; Ausseil (Louis), L’Orfevrerie en Roussillon: Les Orfèvres de la Juridiction de Perpignan du XIIIe au XIXe Siècle, Perpignan:Direction des Archives départementales, 1994, original wrappers. (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£60-90
2121
French Silver Reference Books - Strasbourg
Kugel (Alexis, et. al), Vermeilleux! L’Argent Doré de Strasbourg du XVIe au XIXe Siècle, Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau: Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2014, catalogue to accompany an exhibition at Galerie J. Kugel, Paris, original boards, dust jacket; Deux Siècles d’Orfèvrerie à Strasbourg: XVIIIe-XIXe siècles dans les collection du musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg: Les Musées de Strasbourg, original wrappers; Two others, one on the silver of Anjou and Maine. (4)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£40-60
2122
French Silver Reference Books - Various Regions Chassey (Arnaud de), Les Orfèvres de l’Yonne, Paris: Somogy Éditions, 2005, original boards, dust jacket; Les Orfèvres d’Orleans, Paris: Somogy Éditions, 2003, original boards, dust jacket; Berroyer (Jacques), Orfevrerie en Haute-Bretagne, Éditions Cloitre, 2004, original boards, dust jacket. (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£50-80
2123
French Silver Reference Books - Various Regions Godefroy (Gisèle) & Girard (Raymond), Les Orfèvres du Dauphiné du Moyen Age au XIXe Siècle, Geneva: Librarie Droz, 1985, original boards, dust jacket; Brault-Lerch (Solange), Les Orfèvres de Troyes en Champagne, Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1986, original boards, dust jacket; Chassey (Arnaud de, et. al), Les Orfèvres de Bourgogne, Paris: Éditions du Patrimoine, 1999, original wrappers; Two others. (5)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£80-120
2124
French Silver Catalogue - Collection of D. David-Weill Orfèvrerie France
XVe au XVIII siècle, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, and XIIe au XIXe siècle, three volumes, Paris: Palais-Galliera, 1971-1972, original cloth gilt. (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£60-90
2125
French Silversmith Books
Fuhring (Peter), Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier: Un Génie du Rococo, 16951750, two volumes, Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1999, original boards, dust jacket, slipcase; Perrin (Christiane), François Thomas Germain: Orfèvre des Rois, SaintRémy-en-l’Eau: Éditions Monelle Hayot, 1993, original boards, dust jacket.
(2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2126
Belgian Silver Reference Books
Marechal (Dominique), Chefs-d’oeuvre de l’Orfèvrerie Brugeoise, Catalogue, Bruges: Stichting Kunstboek, 1993, original boards, dust jacket; Tondreau (Lucy, et al), L’Orfevrerie en Hainaut, Tielt/Antwerp: Lannoo & Fonds Mercator, no date, limited edition, number 1458 of 2000 copies, original boards, dust jacket; Four others.
(6)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£30-50
2127
French Silver Reference Books - Paris
Nocq (Henry), Le Poinçon de Paris: Répertoire des maîtres-orfèvres de la juridiction de Paris depuis le Moyen Âge jusqu’à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, five volumes, photocopy facsimile of the 1926-1931 edition (H. Floury), green cloth gilt. (5)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-200
French Silver Reference Books - Languedoc Thuile (Jean), L’Orfèvrerie en Languedoc du XIIme au XVIIIme Sièvle: Généralité de Montpellier [and] Généralité de Toulouse, two volumes, Montpellier: Causse & Castelnau, 1966 & 1988, limited edition, numbers 399 and 384 of 450 copies respectively, original cloth, glassine dust jackets; Idem, Histoire de L’Orfèvrerie du Languedoc: Généralité de Montpellier et de Toulouse, Répertoire des Orfèvres, Paris: Théo & Florence Schmied, 1964-1969, limited edition, numbers 24, 394, and 433 of 450 copies respectively, original cloth; Deguara (Laurent), Orfèvrerie Civile de Montpellier et du Languedoc: Généralité de Montpellier XVIIème & XVIIIème Siècles, Montpellier: Société archéologique de Montpellier, 1996, original pictorial boards. (6)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
2128
2124
2125
2127
2128
2129
A Continental Gilt-Metal Mounted Agate Scent-Bottle or Vinaigrette, Perhaps German, Second Half 17th Century covered vase-shaped, the pierced rosette foot with corded border, with waisted hardstone body, the screw-cap with suspension ring finial, in fitted leather-covered case 32mm high including suspension ring
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
2130
A Continental Silver Box, Apparently Unmarked, Possibly Dutch, Circa 1720
oblong and on plain oval foot, with waisted sides and hinged domed cover, each engraved with foliage and scroll panels, the borders similarly engraved 38mm high, 40mm wide, 18dwt, 29gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2131
A German Silver Scent-Bottle, Apparently Unmarked, Mid-18th Century vase-shaped and with four unscrewing sections, the body engraved with strapwork panels with beaded borders, on a circular fluted foot, the engraved fluted cover with baluster finial 48mm high, 17dwt, 26gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2132
A George III Gold-Mounted Hardstone Vinaigrette, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1800 oblong and with reeded borders, the grille pierced with geometric ornament, the hardstone damaged 28mm wide
Provenance: Christie’s, New York, 27 October 1987, lot 126 (part) where purchased by Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2131
2132
2133
A Spanish Colonial Silver Two-Handled Cup, Apparently Unmarked, Possibly Peruvian, Late 18th/Early 19th Century vase-shaped and on spreading foot, with two fluted double-scroll handles, engraved underneath with initials ‘AR’ conjoined 70mm high, 3oz 12dwt, 111gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2134
A Portuguese Silver Two-Handled Bowl, Attributed to Francisco Silva, Lisbon, Circa 1720
shaped circular, the upper body part-lobed octofoil with rising scroll handles, the lower body with shaped triangular panels chased with dots above foliage in ovals, the centre of the flat base chased with flower head in dotted surround 16.5cm wide over handles, 4oz 16dwt, 149gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2135
A Spanish Colonial Silver Bowl, Maker’s Mark CPS and With a Further Indistinct Mark, Late 18th/Early 19th Century fluted tapering cylindrical and on spreading foot, with two scroll handles, engraved on one side with a star 10cm wide over handles, 1oz, 31gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£60-80
2133
2134
2135
2136
Dutch Silver Reference Books
Frederiks (J.W.), Dutch Silver, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1952-61, four volumes, original boards, dust jackets; Lorm (Jan Rudolph de), Amsterdams Goud en Zilver, Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1999, original boards, dust jacket; Molen (Dr. J.R. ter), Zilver, Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1994, original cloth; Six others. (12)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2137
Dutch Silver Reference Books
Citroen (K.A.), Haarlemse Zilversmeden en hun Merken, Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1988, original cloth; Bree (J. de), Zeeuws Zilver: Voornamelijk Met Betrekking tot Middelburn, Scihedam: Interbook International, 1978, original cloth; Ten others. (12)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£40-60
2138
Dutch Silver Reference Books
Biesboer (Dr. Pieter), Delfts Zilver: Delfts Goud- en Silversmeden en Hun Merken, Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2020, original boards; Ze Verzamelingen van het Centraal Museum Utrecht: Edele en onedele Metalen, Utrecht: Centraal Museum Utrecht, 1997, original cloth; Rijen (Jean-Pierre van) & Vanwesenbeeck (Cees), Zilver in en Rond Bergen op Zoom, Bergen op Zilver, original boards; Eight others. (11)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2139
Dutch Silver Reference Books
Gans (L.B.), Goud- en Zilvermerken Van Voet, Amsterdam: Premsela & Hamburger, 2014, original cloth gilt; Voet (Elias, Jr.), Merken van Friese Goud- en Zilversmeden, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974, original cloth gilt; Citroen (Karel), Dutch Goldsmiths’’ and Silversmiths’ Marks and Names Prior to 1812, Leiden: Primavera Pers, 1993, original cloth; Seven others. (10)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£60-90
2140
Dutch Silver Reference Books
Pijzel-Dommisse (Jet), Haags Goud en Zilver: Edelsmeedkunst uit de Hofstad, The Hague: Gemeentmuseum, 2005, original boards, dust jacket; Dubbe (D.), Zwols Zilver: Het Zwolse Goud- en Zilversmidsambacht en Zijn Meesters, Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 1999, original boards, dust jacket; Szénássy (I.L., editor), Maastrichts Zilver, Maastricht: 1978, original wrappers; Seven others. (10)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£70-100
2136
2137
2138
2139
2141
A Dutch Silver-Gilt Miniature Brandy-Bowl, Maker’s Mark a Six-Pointed Star, Circa 1700 tapering octafoil and on a conforming short foot, with two flat openwork spatulate scroll handles, later engraved on one side ‘From J.B.D.’ 60mm wide over handles, 11dwt, 17gr
Provenance: The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£120-180
2142
A Pair of Dutch Silver Miniature Toy Tea-Bowls and Saucers, The Saucers Each Marked Twice With Sun Mark, Early 18th Century each plain circular and on collet foot the saucers 25mm diameter (4)
Provenance: The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2141
2142
2143
A Dutch Silver Table-Service
Hanoverian pattern, variously engraved with initials, comprising
6 table-spoons, most by Henrik Overhulsman, Amsterdam
6 table-forks, most by Hendrik Overhulsman, Amsterdam
6 dessert-spoons, The Hague, 1784 and 1788
6 dessert-fork, three The Hague, 1784 and 1788, one Middelburg, perhaps 1772 and two 19th century
40oz 1dwt, 1,247gr (24)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£1,000-1,500
2143
2144
A Pair of William III Silver Trefid Table-Forks, by Charles Williams, London, 1697
two-pronged and with raised shoulders, the back engraved with a crest 19cm long, 3oz 2dwt, 97gr
Provenance: Probably the Dukes of Hamilton. Jerome Kern.
Judge Irwin Untermyer (1886-1973), New York. Yvonne Hackenbroch (1912-2012) by whom gifted to Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
Literature:
Y. Hackenbroch, English and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, New York, 1969, pp. 38-39, cat. No. 69.
The present forks appear to belong to a set which was sold by the Trustees of the Duke of Hamilton, Christie’s, London, 4 November 1919. The forks were sold in that sale as five lots: Lot 39 A William and Mary two-pronged fork, maker’s mark WM crowned, 1682 Lot 40
A pair of William and Mary two-pronged forks, by Laurence Coles, 1694 (illustrated M. Clayton The Dictionary of English and American Silver, New York, 1971). Lot 41 A fork, nearly similar, by Laurence Jones, circa 1696 Lot 42 Six William III ditto, by George Cox, 1697 Lot 43 Five George II two-pronged forks, by William Petley, 1728 (see The Collection of the Late Roland Taylor, Christie’s, New York, 27 November 1978)
£2,500-3,500
2145
A Set of Three Brass Trefid Pattern Forks, Marked Indistinctly, Early 18th Century each with four tines, the terminals engraved with a crest 18.5cm long (3)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£60-80
2144
2145
A Maltese Silver Sugar-Bowl and Cover, by Giovanni Carlo Vella, Malta, Perellos Period (1697-1720), Circa 1710 on circular gadrooned foot, the body and domed cover chased with flowerheads and shells on a criss-cross ribbon ground, with moulded border and cast bud finial 12cm high, 7oz 11dwt, 235gr
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£3,000-5,000
2146
2146
2147
A Charles II Silver-Mounted and ShagreenCovered Barber-Surgeons’ Case, Apparently Unmarked, Second Half 17th Century oblong, with curved corners and side drawer, the hinged cover with an applied oval cartouche engraved with a crest, the hinge, hasp and straps each engraved with a flower, the drawer with chased flower head corner mounts and drop-ring handle 16.8cm long
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£1,000-1,500
2149
2148
A George II Silver Snuff-Box, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1730 irregularly formed, the hinged cover engraved with foliage, the sides reeded 65mm wide, 1oz, 32gr
Provenance: The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (19452024).
£100-150
A William III Silver-Gilt Beaker, Maker’s Mark Worn, London, 1701 inverted bell-shaped and on moulded collet foot, the lower part of the matted body engraved slightly later with vertical foliage, husk and rosette strapwork, engraved in the manner of Charles Gardiner with a coat-of-arms in rococo scroll cartouche, the rim engraved with interlinked quatrefoils and foliage 85mm high, 3oz 13dwt, 114gr
Provenance: Stephen Michael and Audrey Bruce Currier, Christie’s, New York, 16 April 1985, lot 465, where acquired by Anthony Phillips. The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
The arms are perhaps those of Dagnia, South Shields, County Durham. £300-500
2147
2148
2150
A George III Silver Second-Course Dish from the Tula Service, by George Heming and William Chawner, London, 1776 shaped circular and with gadrooned border, the border engraved with the Russian Imperial coat-of-arms 30.5cm diameter, 26oz 3dwt, 813gr
Provenance:
From a service commissioned by the Empress Catherine the Great in 1777 for 6,000 Roubles and allocated the following year to the Governor of Tula.
The service was recalled by her son, the Emperor Paul, in 1797 and kept at the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, until 1922. Confiscated and sold by the Soviet Government following the 1917 Revolution.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024)
Literature:
Baron V. von Foelkersam, Inventories of the Silver of the Court of His Imperial Highness, St Petersburg, 1907, p. 252, part of no. 45.
M. Lopato, State Hermitage Museum Collection, British Silver, Yale, 2013, pp. 173-174, where the Tula Service is discussed and p.179, no. 56/10 where a pair to the present dish is illustrated.
£1,000-1,500
2150
2151
A George II Silver Mazarine, Apparently Unmarked, Attributed to Paul de Lamerie, London, Circa 1745 oval, pierced and engraved with shells and scrolls, the centre engraved with a coat-of-arms with foliage scrolls 43.2cm wide, 38oz 18dwt, 1,210gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
Arthur Grimwade has suggested, in a Rapifax of 23 June 1977, maintained in the family archive, that the arms are likely to be those of Sampson Gideon (1699-1762) impaling another. He based this on the belief that Gideon's wife was Elizabeth Erwell, presumably a transcription error for Ermell, though recent research suggests she was Jane, not Elizabeth. As her family was not armigerous, Grimwade speculated that the family instead assumed the arms of the family whose name seemed closest to theirs, in this case Erveley.
Sampson Gideon was a wealthy British banker and philanthropist, perhaps best remembered for his involvement in financing the government's suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745. He was born in London to a Jewish family with Portuguese ancestry, his grandfather being born in Porto, though later moving to Germany. The family was active in the West Indies sugar trade until Rowland Gideon, Sampson's father, moved to London, being admitted to the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers in 1698, the year before Sampson was born.
Sampson's early career involved trading and speculating in various commodities and he was later to become involved in the financing of the British army, his wealth increased rapidly and dramatically so that by 1759 he was believed to be worth some £350,000, having started with a not insubstantial inheritance of £1,500 in 1720. He would seem to have been involved at the heart of finance in London through the second quarter of the 18th century, surviving, for example, the burst of the South Sea bubble and acted as an advisor to Robert Walpole.
He had aspired to join the aristocracy, but despite his wealth and connections, a title was not bestowed on him as he was a practicing Jew. His marriage in the 1740s to Jane Ermell, a Christian, resulted in three children who were baptised in the Church of England meaning that the eldest son, also Sampson, was given a baronetcy and later created Baron Eardley of Spalding in 1789. £800-1,200
2152
A Set of Six Norwegian Silver and Enamel Coffee-Spoons, by David Anderson, Oslo, With English Import Marks for Birmingham, 1898, Retailed by Liberty and Co., London the back of the bowls with turquoise cloisonne enamel within white dot border, in fitted Liberty and Co. black textured leather-covered case the spoons 96mm long
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2153
A Set of Six George III Agate-Handled Steel Table-Knives, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1800, Four Blades Stamped ‘Robinson Farnham’ the tapering handles each differing facetted, with fluted silver ferrules and shaped steel blades 27cm long and slightly smaller (6)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2154
A Continental Silver Travelling Knife, Fork and Spoon, Maker’s Mark FVB, With Unidentified Town Mark, Circa 1800
Fiddle Thread pattern, the knife with tapering oval handle and steel blade, in fitted tooled leather case; Together With a continental silver and iron folding spoon, the metal handle inlaid with animals and foliage the case 25.5cm long, weighable silver 3oz 1dwt, 95gr (4)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2155
A George III Silver Basting-Spoon, by William Sumner, London, 1792
Old English pattern, engraved with an initial ‘B’; Together With a pair of George III Scottish silver sugar-tongs, maker’s mark AG only, possibly by Alexander Gairdner, Edinburgh, circa 1790, with shell grips the basting-spoon 29.5cm long, total weight of silver 4oz 1dwt, 126gr (2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (19452024).
£100-150
2156
A William IV Scottish Silver Fish-Slice, by Robert Gray and Son, Glasgow, 1833
Scottish variant King’s pattern, engraved with a crest, the blade with dolphins, hippocampi and shells on a matted ground 30.5cm long, 4oz 18dwt, 153gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (19452024).
£120-180
2157
A Victorian Silver-Gilt Cheese-Knife, by George Adams, London, 1850, Retailed by Mortimer and Hunt
Vine pattern, the filled handle cast on each side at the terminal with a coat-of-arms below a marquess’ coronet, with steel blade 21.5cm long
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (19452024).
£40-60
2158
A Pair of George III Silver Sauce-Ladles, Maker’s Mark Worn, London, 1817
Fiddle pattern, engraved with an initial 17.8cm long, 4oz 11dwt, 141gr (2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (19452024).
£70-100
2159
A Set of Six George III Silver-Gilt Teaspoons, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1760 each with twig-cast stem, applied with chased flower, foliage and insects 12.5cm long, 4oz 1dwt, 126gr (6)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (19452024).
£120-180
2152
2153
2154
2155
2156
2157
2158
2159
2160
A Victorian Royal Silver MeatSkewer, by Mary Chawner, London, 1837 of typical form, tapering and with reeded ring handle, the terminal stamped with foliage, each side further stamped with the royal crown, one side further engraved with initials ‘AR’ 35.5cm long, 5oz, 155gr
Provenance:
Commissioned by King William IV in 1836 or 1837 and delivered to his widow, Queen Adelaide, following his death in June 1837.
Perhaps among the items from the extensive service given to Albert, 1st Baron Londesborough (1805-1860) and presumably by descent to his son William, 2nd Baron and later 1st Earl Londesborough (1834-1900). Possibly A Nobleman [Earl of Londesborough]; Christie’s London, 18 May 1898. The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
The initials are those of Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV (r.1830-1837).
£150-250
2161
A Spanish Silver Meat-Fork, by S. Garcia, Pamplona, 1866 with an octagonal cannonhandle, the terminal cast with foliage, with two tines 24.5cm long, 5oz 17dwt, 182gr
Provenance: Yvonne Hackenbroch (19122012) by whom gifted to to Anthony Phillips. The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-250
2161
Anthony telephone bidding with his colleague Jeanne Sloane, image courtesy of Christie’s
2162
A Pair of George IV Silver Chamber-Candlesticks, by Thomas, James and Nathaniel Creswick, Sheffield, 1825 each shaped circular and with scroll handle, the socket with a detachable nozzle, one handle supports a tapering extinguisher, the other extinguisher lacking 16cm wide over handle, 17oz 5dwt, 537gr (2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£400-600
2164
A Pair of Old Sheffield Plate Sauceboats, Apparently Unmarked, Circa 1820
each in the George II rococo style, each fluted oval and on spreading shell and scroll heightened foot, with leaf-capped scroll handle, engraved with a crest 17.5cm wide over handle (2)
Provenance:
The Wesley Collection, Detroit, Michigan and by descent to the Moore family, by whom gifted to Anthony Phillips.
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2163
A George III Silver Mustard-Pot, by John Emes, London, 1806 shaped oblong and on conforming foot, with gadrooned border, the hinged cover with plain thumbpiece and ball finial, with blue glass liner and scroll handle, engraved with a crest 10cm wide over handle, weight of silver 4oz 5dwt, 133gr
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2165
A Set of Four George III Silver Salt-Cellars, by William Abdy, London, 1784
each oval and on four tapering ball and claw feet, the sides pierced and with a central plaque with engraved initials on one side, the rim beaded with blue glass liner 80mm wide (4)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2164 2165
2166
The Proceedings of the Society of Silver Collectors & The Silver Society Journal
Three bound volumes of The Proceedings of the Society of Silver Collectors, 1960-1968; 1966-1979;1984-1987, including index, cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in silver; Eight bound volumes of The Silver Society Journal, 1990-2017, including index, illustrated throughout uniform blue cloth bindings, spine lettered in silver. (11)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024). £70-100
2167
Christie’s Silver Auction Catalogues
Collection of bound Christie’s New York silver and objects of vertu auction catalogues, 1977-1990, twelve volumes, cloth bindings.
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£150-200
2169
An Elizabeth II Silver Tumbler-Cup, by C. J. Vander Ltd., London, 1971 plain tapering cylindrical and with slightly rounded base 57mm diameter, 42mm high, 2oz 14dwt, 85gr
Provenance:
The Collection of the Late Anthony Phillips (19452024).
£70-700
2168
A Set of Six French Silver-Gilt Tot-Cups, by Henri Soufflot, Paris, Early 20th Century tapering cylindrical, the upper body with a band of palm leaves and berries 55mm high, 11oz, 342gr (6)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£200-300
2170
A Pair of Silver Kiddish Cups, Stamped ‘Sterling’, 20th Century each of typical form, on domed base, the tulip-shaped bowl with Star of David and zig-zag lines, the interiors gilt 12.5cm high, 3oz 5dwt, 102gr (2)
Provenance: The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2168
2169
2170
2171
Christie’s Auction Catalogues - Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé, Paris, 2009, six volumes, slipcase; Five others relating to the same sale. (11)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2172
Christie’s Auction Catalogues - The Princess Margaret Sale Property from the Collection of Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, London, 2006, two volumes, two copies, one bound in original wrappers, the other full morocco gilt, all edges gilt. (4)
Leather-bound copies of the sale catalogue were gifted to Christie’s staff members by the family.
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£100-150
2171
2172
2173
A Travelling Quartz Alarm Strut Timepiece, Signed Cartier, Paris quartz battery movement, white dial with Roman numerals, alarm hand, 7.5cm by 10cm, Together With another Travelling Eight Day Alarm Timepiece, signed Jaeger, manual wound movement, silvered dial, 5cm by 6cm, (2)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£80-120
2174
Sotheby’s Auction Catalogues
The Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Collection, London, 2007; The Frits Philips Eindhoven Collection, The Netherlands, 2006; The Jaime Oritz-Patiño Collection, New York, 1992, three volumes, slipcase; And others.
(37)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£60-90
2175
Sotheby’s Auction Catalogues
Collection du Baron de Redé Provenant de l’Hôtel Lambert, Paris, 2005, two volumes;
The Royal House of Hanover, Hanover, 2005, three volumes; Die Sammlung der Markgrafen und Grossherzöge von Baden, BadenBaden, 1995, seven volumes, slipcase; Five others. (17)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£80-120
2176
An Edward VII Silver-Cased Timepiece, by Douglas Clock Co., Birmingham, 1903, Retailed by Sharman D. Neill, Belfast with arched top and spreading base, the dial with Roman numerals 15cm wide
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£70-100
2177
Christie’s Auction Catalogues
The John and Frances L. Loeb Collection, New York, 1997, slipcase; The Barbara Streisand Collection, New York, 1994, two volumes, slipcase;
The Alexander Collection: Important French Furniture, Gold Boxes, & Porcelain, New York, 1999;
And others, including single owner collections, several The Exceptional Sale volumes, etc. (Qty)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£80-120
2178
Christie’s Auction Catalogues
Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Works of Art, from the Byzantine Period to that of Louis Seize, of that Distinguished Collector, Ralph Bernal, Esq., Deceased..., London: Christie & Manson, 1855 (lacking backstrip, boards detached;
The Highly Important Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Works of Art Formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer, Esq., F.S.A, London, 1936;
The Highly Important Collection of Old English and Foreign Silver the Property of William Randolph Hearst, Esq., London, 1938; One other (4)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
£30-50
2179
Christie’s Auction Catalogues
Old Master Prints from Chatsworth, London, 1985; Works of Art from the Bute Collection, London, 1996, two volumes, slipcase; Works of Art from Houghton, London, 1994; And others. (31)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£100-150
2180
Christie’s Auction Catalogues
The Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann Collection, London & Amsterdam, 2002, five volumes, cloth slipcase with folding cover; Robert de Balkany, London, 2017, two volumes, additional card wrappers;
The Champalimaud Collection, London, 2005, two volumes, slipcase with folding cover; Twenty-two others. (31)
Provenance:
The collection of the late Anthony Phillips (1945-2024).
See illustration online
£100-150
Anthony at the view for the Yves Saint Laurent Sale, image courtesy of the family
Valuations for Insurance, Probate and Family Division
BUYERS’ INFORMATION
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A Buyer’s Premium of 24% on the first £999,999 of the Hammer Price and 22% on the amount thereafter, plus VAT, is payable on each lot.
Condition Reports
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Caveat Emptor
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Additional Images
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Online Bidding
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Absentee Bidding
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AML Due Diligence
We conduct appropriate Due Diligence checks to comply with current Anti Money Laundering regulations for any buyer exceeding the threshold of £6,000. We reserve the right to withhold the purchased lots until such checks have been completed.
Agency
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Export/CITES Regulations
Clients intending to import/export any item derived from natural history specimens into/from a non-European country should first check for any Import/Export and possession restrictions prior to bidding/selling. Certain species are also subject to CITES regulations when exporting/importing these items out of the EU. CITES regulations are given on www.ukcites.gov.uk or may be obtained from:
The Animal and Plant Health Agency Centre for International Trade Horizon House Deanery Road Bristol BL1 5AH wildlife.licensing@apha.gsi.gov.uk 0117 372 3700
Those species that are covered by the US Endangered Species Act (USESA) or The Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA): potential US bidders should check with USF&W (US Fish and Wildlife Services) for trade/possession restrictions in the US prior to bidding.
Droit de Suite/ Artists’ Resale Rights
All items in this catalogue that are marked with “3” are potentially qualifying items, and the royalty charge (set out below) will apply if the Hammer Price is more than £1,000. The royalty charge will be added to purchase invoices and must be paid before items can be cleared. All royalty charges are paid to either the Design and Artists Copyright Society (“DACS”) or the Artists’ Collecting Society (“ACS”) by the auctioneers, and no handling costs or additional fees with respect to these changes will be retained by the auctioneer.
From 14 February 2006 United Kingdom art market professionals (which includes auctioneers) are required to collect a royalty payment for all works of art that have been produced by living artists, and those who have died within the last 70 years. This payment is calculated on qualifying works of art which are sold for a Hammer Price of more than £1,000.
The royalty charge for qualifying items which achieve a Hammer Price of more than the UK sterling equivalent of £1,000 is as follows:
Up to £50,000 – 4%
£50,000.01 to £200,000 – 3%
£200,000.01 to £350,000 – 1%
£350,000.01 to £500,000 – 0.5%
Exceeding £500,000 – 0.25%
For further information please visit www.dacs.org.uk or www.artistscollectingsociety.org. There is no VAT payable on this royalty charge.
Post 1950 Furniture
Some furniture offered in the sale (as applicable) was not originally intended for use in a private home and will be sold under the category “works of art”. It is possible that some furniture does not comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire)(Safety) Regulations 1989 and, for this reason, should not be used in a private home or re-upholstered. We do not provide any warranty or guarantee as to the safety of such furniture or the compliance with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1989.
Furniture Made from Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia Negra)
To comply with CITES Regulations on post-1947 Brazilian Rosewood furniture, all items have non-transferable Article 10 certificates. Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia Negra) is also subject to regulations when exporting and importing.
CITIES Regulations are given on www.ukcities.gov.uk or may be obtained from:
The Animal and Plant Health Agency Centre for International Trade Horizon House Deanery Road
Bristol BL1 5AH Wildlife.licensing@apha.gsi.gov.uk 0117 372 3700
Method of Payment
Payment is accepted online via our website.
Card payments where the card holder is not present will only be accepted for transactions up to £500.
Payment can be made and purchases collected during the auction. All accounts must be settled within 14 days of the sale. Accounts not paid within 14 days will automatically be subject to an interest charge of 5% above base rate from the day of sale.
Collection
All purchases must be collected from our Leyburn offices, unless stated otherwise, within seven days of the Sale (Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm).
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