The Pedestal | The William H. Stokes Collection of Early Works of Art & Furniture | March 4 2019

The William H.Stokes Collection of Early Works of Art & Furniture 12pm Monday 4th March 2019 Bingham Hall, Cirencester GL7 1JT

The William H. Stokes Collection of Early Works of Art & Furniture On the instructions of the Executor of P.W. Bontoft Esq and other selected properties.

12pm Monday 4 March 2019 Sale number: 040319

Specialists:

Bingham Hall King Street Cirencester Gloucestershire, GL7 1JT

Early Works of Art & Furniture Simon Green simon@thepedestal.com

020 7281 2790 info@thepedestal.com www.thepedestal.com

Guy Savill guy@thepedestal.com

Viewing at Bingham Hall 10am-5pm Friday 1 March 2019 10am-4pm Saturday 2 March 2019 11am-4pm Sunday 3 March 2019 9am-12pm Monday 4 March 2019 Catalogue: £10 Front cover: Lot 25,67,72,93,102, 103 Inside front cover: Lot 270 (part) Inside back cover: Lot 81 (detail) Back cover: Lot 302 (detail)

Sally Stratton MRICS sally@thepedestal.com Silver Michael Prevezer michael@thepedestal.com Client Manager: Jackie Brown info@thepedestal.com

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Location There are limited free car parking spaces outside Bingham Hall, the nearest paid car park is Forum Car Park, North Way, Cirencester, GL7 2PR. There is access to additional free parking on Saturday 2 March and Sunday 3 March at the old Watermoor School site, Watermoor Rd, Cirencester, GL7 1JR. Further information regarding Bingham Hall is available on their website www.binghamhall.co.uk or by telephone 01285 653313.

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Buyers Collection and Storage – After Sale Information All sold Lots will remain at Bingham Hall. King Street, Cirencester until 12pm Tuesday 5th March 2019, or by prior arrangement. All sold lots not collected by this time will be removed to Cadogan Tate and will be available for collection from 12 noon on Thursday 7th March 2019. and then every working day between 9:00am and 4:30pm.

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The William H. Stokes Collection A History and Appreciation William H Stokes Antiques was a leading firm of specialist dealers in early oak furniture for almost five decades, until the death of Willam Stokes in 2015, at age 94, followed by that of his partner, Peter Bontoft, in 2018, at age 73.

William Stokes (William to his friends, Bill or Willy to the trade) commenced professional dealing in 1969. At first he was based at Cold Overton Hall in Rutland, a panelled and most attractive early C17 mansion with a memorable feature in a splendid staircase dog gate. In 1974 he was joined in business by Peter Bontoft and they made a well-balanced team, with William providing the necessary depth of expert knowledge and Peter dealing with the day-to-day running of the business and, as time went on, providing an expert second opinion. In 1979, in pursuit of a broader private customer base, a move was made to Robert’s House in Siddington, on the edge of the Cotswolds. In this period the team were regular exhibitors at the Bath and Harrogate Antiques Fairs. In 1982 their application to exhibit at Grosvenor House Antiques Fair was accepted and they showed at this prestigious event for the next ten years, further developing private customer relationships that were to remain the bedrock of their business. In the 1990s they

William H. Stokes and Peter Bontoft outside their premises in Dollar Street, Cirencester

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Business cards from William H.Stokes premises at Cold Overton Hall, Robert’s House and Dollar Street

moved again, this time a short distance to a large and atmospheric medieval premises in Dollar Street, Cirencester, and here they stayed, holding annual selling exhibitions in October until recent times. Collections formed by customers of William H Stokes Antiques have been coming to auction of late and will continue to do so and these evidence the Stokes

The Cloisters, 6-8 Dollar Street Cirencester

William assisting on the stand of S.W. Wolsey Ltd at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, Mayfair, London, 1955

signature tune, which is the best of late C16 and C17 furniture, often profusely carved, with an emphasis on items with usefulness in the modern house.

Antiques dealers, particularly those active at the top end, need to have engaging personalities and my friends William and Peter had these in abundance. William was bubbly and puckish and I think of his skill in charming the ladies, complimenting them on their outfits, able to remember what they wore previously, and it is certain this talent saved many touch-andgo sales over the years, since collectors wives’ often have the casting vote on purchases. But if William seems like a natural born dealer, he came to it late in life, at age 49, after other highly unrelated occupations. He revealed shortly before his death that during the war he was stationed abroad in Egypt and elsewhere, deciphering German codes. By the early 1950s he was employed as a nurse in the dental practice of a boyhood friend, Ken Binns. In this period both he and Binns developed a passion for furniture and objects from the early period, and they scoured country dealers and junk shops for lucky finds, as well as buying fine pieces from the leading

dealers of the time, Samuel Wolsey and Mary Bellis, with whom they became friendly. Then came a decisive event. Mr Wolsey, a charming, kind, but private man, who did not suffer fools for a split second and was slow to enter friendships, took a liking to William and invited him to assist in his business on a part-time basis. William leapt at the opportunity and for some years he came to work in Wolsey’s shop every Thursday and annually he assisted on Wolsey’s stand at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair. This was a massive stroke of luck for William that shaped his life. Why is this dealer, with a name so evocative of the Tudor period so special? There are many reasons. S. W. Wolsey Ltd was a specialist dealer of the highest standing. He traded for almost 50 years, until retirement in 1968, in a very substantial premises in London’s Buckingham Gate, having a four-window frontage and similar space in the basement, all sub-divided by period panelling into little rooms with a powerful feeling of the C16.

He sold early furniture and works of art (Nottingham alabaster panels were a speciality) to museums around the world, created fine national collections, such as those that remain in the Oak House, West Bromwich, and the Shakespeare properties in Stratford-on-Avon, and he supplied to the leading pre- and post war collectors such as William Burrell. Peter Gwynn and Eric Moller. But he was more than a dealer.

Through his advertisements in the 40s and 50s, featuring beautiful photos by Hildyard, he defined the proper look of early furniture, which had been so mis-represented by the early text books. He worked with R W Symonds, the most important of all furniture historians, on countless magazine articles and a book, Furniture Making in 17th and 18th Century England, providing most of the photos and much of the expert knowledge, and he co-authored The Age of The Joiner with R W P Luff. He elevated the status of early furniture in a profound way. And he invented the idea of an antiques fair, the first ever such event, which was held at Grosvenor House in Mayfair in 1934, being an implementation of his original idea.

For William, the time spent with this important man was the

William H. Stokes, previous premises Robert’s House, Siddington, near Cirencester

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greatest learning curve imaginable, both on early furniture and the art of dealing in it: Samuel Wolsey was William’s mentor and abiding exemplar. Sam Wolsey did not pay William for his work, but instead gave him gifts from time to time. I recall the pricket candlesticks offered in the sale as lot 75 as one such gift William Stokes was a keen collector from the 1950s onwards, so his collection represents about 60 years of astute acquisition by a gifted connoisseur. Having had a valued close friendship with William since 1969, I can vouch that most of the items here were bought in the 50s and 60s, the rest acquired subsequently, jointly by William and Peter. A few items represent remaining stock at the time of the closure of the business.

The breadth of the collection is surprising and exciting. Although there is furniture, as might be expected given the Stokes stockin-trade, many other aspects of early period craftmanship are represented in English and continental wood carving, brass, iron, silver, treen and eclectic objects that defy categorisation, as well as a fine reference library.

Outstanding among the furniture is the fixed wall bench, probably from Somerset and one of a small group of such things that remain in the West Country. This fine example retains the original seat board, which is not usually the case, and is seemingly unique in displayiing carved portrait heads of the Renaissance style of decoration. This wall bench used to look splendid as I first saw it, arranged against the oak panelling in the great hall at Cold Overton (lot 82). The big court cupboard with its Gloucestershire decoration was a particular favourite of Peter’s and is among the very finest examples of its genre (lot 81). Ken Binns wrote ten articles in the Antique Collector magazine in the early 70s and chose to illustrate the interesting uncommon Lancashire chair (lot 329) and the small low cupboard that may well be unique (lot 39). Another very appealing piece is the small, fine chest of drawers which displays the charming and rare feature of drawers lined with printed paper showing portraits of Charles II and his wife (lot 110). Many of the objects impress on first sight, the more-so on examination. A case in point is a pleasing Henry VIII period panel that becomes even more desirable when its very early carved date is discovered (lot 267).

William H. Stokes stand at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair

William H. Stokes stand at the Harrogate Antiques Fair

Every year collections of oak period furniture come to auction, finding eager purchasers, though the fare tends to be a bit repetitious. Many of these collections are formed within living memory and the content is decidedly déjà vu. Every now and again a long-established collection is offered that isn’t like this and which is truly exciting. In this category I think immediately of the collections of my late friends Peter Gwynn and Clive Sherwood, also that of Roger Warner. And I think we may add the Stokes Collection to the list. My confident guess is that this fresh exciting material will exhilarate the market in a memorable way and that even the catalogue will be a sought-after possession in years to come.

John Muir 7 January 2019 William H. Stokes stand at the Bath Antiques Fair

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1 A George III silver gilt cup and cover, by Ebenezer Coker 1775 The body with part graduated fluting below an engraved coat of arms, the scroll side handles with beaded rat tails, the conforming cover with pineapple finial and bead borders, 20cm wide, 10.7cm diameter, 24cm high. £400-£600

2 A Westerwald salt-glazed stoneware jug, circa 1685 With a portrait of Queen Mary, 14cm high. £200-£300 thepedestal.com

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3 An Elizabethan Tigerware jug The unmarked silver mount probably late 16th century and engraved with scrolling flowers and with a vacant cartouche to the front, the top of the handle terminating in an acanthus leaf mount, with beaded lower edge, 20cm high. £300-£500

4 A late Victorian novelty treen inkwell Modelled as a boxer dog head with glass eyes (one lost), 9cm wide, 13cm high. £150-£250

5 An Elizabethan or James I oak side table With a later top, above arcaded friezes and fluted tapering legs, 79cm wide, 41cm deep, 73cm high. £800-£1,200

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6 English School The One-legged black beggar in Cirencester Gouache, mid 19th century The reverse with hand-written paper label ‘Rowlandson’ and another paper label in capital letters ‘THE ONE LEGGED BLACK BEGGAR COULD BE THE CELEBRATED BILLY WALTERS WHO PLAYED HIS FIDDLE IN THE 1820 LONDON PRODUCTION OF TOM & JERRY. WHEN THIS CLOSED IN 1822 HE WAS OUT OF A JOB AND TOOK TO BEGGING. HE DIED OF DRINK 4 YEARS LATER. IN THE 1840’S A STAFFORDSHIRE FIGURE WAS, PRODUCED OF HIM’.

In a gilt frame 12.5cm x 16cm £300-£500

7 Italian School Lakeside village scene, two figures in the foreground, 19th century Oil on panel In a modern frame 11cm x 16cm £300-£500

8 An oak or chestnut alms box, late 16th / early 17th century Iron carrying handle and coin slot on top, all sides with cartouche panels, the front with a door and carved with a figure of St Eligius, the back a hammer, each side the letters S EL, 14cm wide, 12cm deep, 18cm high. £1,200-£1,800 Saint Eligius is the patron saint of Goldsmiths and other metalworkers. He is also the patron saint of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and also of horses and those who work with them. The saint is invariably depicted in bishop's garb and holding his emblem, a goldsmith's hammer.

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9¥ A pair of George III rosewood candlesticks, circa 1780 With spiral twist stems, each 11cm diameter, 21cm high. (2) £200-£400

10 A George III oak table-top or hand-held paddle-shaped firescreen, circa 1780 46.5cm high. £300-£500

11 A George III treen scissor-action rushnip, circa 1780 possibly Welsh Borders 13cm diameter, 30cm high. £400-£600 Comparative Literature: R. Ashley, The Rushlight and Related Holders 2001, Fig 195 illustrates a similar rushnip.

12 A leather bottle cover, open to the base and with iron prongs, 18th / 19th century 25cm high. £200-£300

13 A Norwegian painted loving cup, dated 1766 9.5cm diameter, 15cm high. £200-£400

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14 A polychrome pine dummy-board depicting Jeffry Hudson, 19th century Dressed in cravat, coat and hat, leaning on his cane, handwritten letter to the reverse: At Oakham in Rutlandshire in England in 1619 was born Jeffry Hudson; when 7 years old he was not above 15 inches high; at that age he was taken into the family of the Duke of Buckingham to invest the Court who on a progress through the country were entertained at the Duke’s Seat at Burley-on-theHill – he was served up in a pie dish to table; at this time, between 7th to 30th years of his age he did not advance perceptibly in stature – but soon after 30 he shot up to the height of 2 foot 9 inches, which height he never exceeded. He was given to Henrietta Maria, Consort of King Charles the 1st and the princess kept him as her dwarf; he was employed taking messages abroad, in the civil war he was made a Captain of Horse in the King’s Service and accompanied the Queen his mistress to France from whence he was banished for killing a brother of Lord Croft in a duel in Rosbach; he was afterwards taken at sea by a Turkish Corsair and was many years a slave in Barbary, but being redeemed he came to England & in 1678 upon suspicion of being concerned in Oates’s plot was taken up and committed a prisoner to the Gate House in Westminster where he lay a considerable time but was at last discharged and died in 1683 – aged 64 years 36cm wide, 84.5cm high. £1,000-£1,500

15 A George III lignum vitae mortar and pestle, circa 1780 Together with another apothecary’s pestle, the mortar 8cm diameter, 12cm high. (3) £400-£600

16 A George III cedar tobacco jar, circa 1800 The lid with bulbous finial, 11cm diameter, 22cm high. £300-£500 17 No lot thepedestal.com

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18 A carved panel or crest, initialled and dated WP 1536 44cm wide x 13cm high. £300-£500

19 A pair of carved lion heads, 19th century Together with a pair of carved baboon heads and seven baboon heads in cast iron, the lions 18cm x 14cm, the baboons 11cm x 8cm. (11) £200-£400

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20 A parchemin type panel, enriched with grape clusters, 16th century 53cm x 27cm, together with a leafy tendril boss carving, 16th century, 29cm x 42cm, a Tudor Rose fragment, 15cm square, a Gothic fragment, 20cm x 11cm and four foliate carved panels, 17th century. (8) £300-£500

21 OP A large George III oak housekeeper’s cupboard, circa 1780 With original handles and H-hinges, the gothic fret frieze in mahogany above a pair of doors flanking a central pair of doors, with arched fielded panels and outer mahogany quarter columns, the lower section with four dummy drawers and four true drawers over three larger drawers and plinth, 231cm wide, 53cm deep, 209cm high. £1,500-£2,500

22 An English stone sculpture of a lion and cub, late 19th century, probably North Country 61cm x 28cm. £300-£500

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23 A large Charles I oak box, circa 1630 Boldly carved with strapwork, hinged lid and original moulded base, 62cm wide, 49cm deep, 23.5cm high. £500-£700

24 A lead figure of an eagle mounted on an oak stand carved AD 1475 Carved to the reverse ‘LEAD ST JOHN’S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, OAK FROM ST PAUL’S CHURCH EXETER’, 35cm wide, 25cm high. £200-£400

25 An English oak figure of a Saint, late 16th / early 17th century Probably part of a Crucifixion scene, kneeling in adoration, 19cm wide, 27cm high. £300-£500

26 A Charles II oak box, circa 1660 Boldly carved with punch decorated lunettes, the lid with central rosette within incised border, 47.5cm wide, 32.5cm deep, 25.5cm high. £400-£600

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27 After Frans Hals Portrait of Catharina Hooft with her nurse Oil on canvas 88.5cm x 67cm £1,000-£1,500 Note The present painting is after the original in the Gemaldegalerie, Berlin.

28 Circle of John Riley Portrait of a young gentleman, three-quarter-length, wearing armour, before a column Oil on canvas 126cm x 102cm £1,000-£1,500

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29 A large cherrywood low table, probably Austrian, 18th century With frieze drawer and square legs joined by elm and pine stretchers, height altered, 116cm wide, 117cm deep, 47cm high. £500-£1,000

30 A large two door cupboard, circa 1900 Painted to simulate marble, each door with four moulded panels and twin linenfold panels, 148cm wide, 43cm deep, 167cm high. £500-£800

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31 Two similar Dutch brass oval jardinieres, mid 19th century Gadrooned and with lion mask handles, on paw feet, 28cm wide x 17cm deep and 26cm wide x 17cm deep respectively, each 36cm high. (2) £300-£500 (part lot)

32 An English brass bowl, 18th century With a George V penny affixed to the underside for stability, 37cm diameter, 10cm high. £200-£400

33 A pair of brass wall sconces, probably Dutch, mid 19th century Each 25cm wide x 19cm high. (2) £300-£500

34 Various copper items, mostly 19th century, English and Dutch Including bowls, dishes, spoon, jug and chandelier pole, also a brass-bound bucket, largest bowl 32cm diameter. (10) £150-£250

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35 OP A Heriz carpet, North West Persia, circa 1900 435cm x 433cm £3,500-£4,500 18

36 A Charles I door for a built-in wall cupboard, initialled and dated AEB 1643 Panelled and with a coat of arms in a cartouche to the centre depicting three busts above three arrows below a helm, stamped RG, 78cm wide, 78.5cm high. £300-£500 The arms are those of Swain or Swayne.

Interestingly one Francis Swayne of St Michael’s Belfrey Parish, York is listed in William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms ‘The Visitation of the County of Yorke’ in 1665/1666 as one who failed to appear before him with proof of his arms and pedigree.

37 A Charles II oak close stool, circa 1670 With hinged lid and foliate-filled lozenge decoration to front and sides, carved initials WB, 47cm wide, 43cm deep, 50cm high. £300-£500

38 A George III oak and elm cricket table, circa 1780 With circular top and triform base joined by square stretchers, 63cm diameter, 60cm high. £400-£600

39 An unusual Charles II small oak table / cupboard, circa 1670 The square top above a cupboard door with deep raised panel and arcaded apron, on ball and ring-turned legs joined by stretchers, the underside profusely stencilled with advertising for J & J COLEMAN’S, 46cm wide, 46cm deep, 58cm high. £500-£800 Literature: C.K. Binns, Some further previously unrecorded examples of early oak furniture, Antique Collector, April/May 1970, p.64-70, illustrated and credited to William Stokes.

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40 A section of lead piping, initialled and dated WS 1782, used as an umbrella stand 14cm diameter 45cm high, together with an 18th century tall lead cup, 6cm diameter, 18cm high. (2) £300-£500

41 An oak alms box, late 16th / early 17th century With strap hinges and three locks, the lid with coin slot, 23cm wide, 20cm deep, 19cm high. £400-£600 Provenance: Hadzor Parish church, Worcestershire, removed during renovations in the 1920s. Purchased by William Stokes in 1954 from Baer of Hereford.

(part lot) 42 Two pairs of English iron firedogs, late 17th / early 18th century 80cm high and 72cm high. (4) £600-£1,000

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43 A cast iron fireback, 16th century style, probably European Depicting the Royal coat of arms and a rose, of arched shape, loss to lower edge, 62cm wide, 61cm high. £300-£500

44 An interesting 18th century oak weight driven hook-andspike alarm timepiece The ogee moulded cornice about a square glazed moulded door and doors to each side, the narrow door with double moulded panels, on a moulded plinth base and ogee bracket feet, the square brass dial (with evidence of an added arch), with single hand, the 30-hour weight driven posted-frame movement with verge escapement and short bob pendulum and alarm, 39cm wide, 21cm deep, 218cm high. £700-£1,000

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45 An 18th century oak longcase clock by Wm Stokes The rectangular ogee moulded cornice above a square glazed door with ring turned split balusters, above a rectangular moulded door on square moulded plinth base, the 9.25” square brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels framing the Roman chapter ring and matted centre with single hand, signed between V and VII ‘Wm Stokes’, the posted iron movement with anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on a bell, the hammer stop and spring each with hand fretted decoration, the three strike train arbors are all made with pivots to the front in the traditional way, but secured at the rear by separate pivots in screw-threaded heads locating through the rear parts, 45cm wide, 21cm deep, 196cm high. £300-£500 21

46 A pair of giltwood table lamps, 18th century Each 32cm high, together with another two similar. (4) £200-£400

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47 A pair of polychrome painted and parcel gilt table lamps, 20th century Each 62cm high. (2) £200-£400

48 A pair of large Italian green painted and parcel gilt table lamps, circa 1900 Each 82cm high. (2) £800-£1,200

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49 A bronze mortar dated 1668, English Probably by Anthony Bartlet of the Whitechapel Foundry 16 cm diameter. 12cm high, together with a pestle, 19cm long. £600-£1,000 Comparative Literature: Finlay ‘English decorated mortars & their Makers’ 2010, p.69, Fig 94 illustrates a very similar mortar but dated 1669

50 A small bronze mortar with a band of shell and scroll decoration, English, 17th century 13.5cm diameter, 11cm high. £300-£500

51 A bronze two-handled mortar with initial triad RWM, English, 17th century 17.5cm diameter, 13cm high. £400-£600

52 A small bronze mortar, Dutch, 17th century 10.5cm high. £200-£400

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53 OP A George II oak hanging corner cupboard, possibly Welsh, circa 1740 Enclosed by a fielded panel door, fixed shelves within, 58cm wide, 30cm deep, 74cm high. £600-£800

54 A tall Charles I oak stool, circa 1640 The seat upholstered with a 17th century tapestry fragment, velvet edges and fringe, on slender ring-turned legs joined by square stretchers, 45cm wide, 50cm deep, 63cm high. £1,200-£1,800

55 A George III oak side table and a George III elm chair, circa 1780 The table with paper label ‘JAMES MERYETT Antique and High Class Furniture and dealer in bric-a-brac, KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA, Established 1850’, 84cm wide, 48cm deep, 75cm high. (2) £300-£500

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56 Follower of Francesco Francia The Holy family Oil on panel 28.4cm x 25.5cm ÂŁ3,000-ÂŁ5,000

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57 A miniature Hanoverian Royal Coat of Arms In use post-1714 Intricately carved in boxwood, sealed in a beech and parcel-gilt frame 14cm x 11cm, together with a gilt-metal Tipstaff finial modelled as a crown, 15cm. (2) £400-£600

58 A painted iron badge, 18th / 19th century Depicting St George and the Dragon, four holes drilled to each side, 12cm wide, 15cm high. £200-£400

60 A whalebone fid, early 19th century 36cm long.

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59 ¥ A lead crucifix, 17th or 18th century 18cm wide, 32cm high, together with a figure of Christ with halo, 16th century, 10.5cm high. (2) £300-£500

61 A set of four hardwood salts in silvered metal liners, early 20th century Largest 14cm diameter, together with a plain bronze skillet, 18th century, 17.5cm diameter, 15cm high. (5) £150-£250

62 A group of five Halifax mottled glaze pottery and slipware bird whistles, 19th century One with initials TS, largest 24.5cm high; smallest 13cm high. (5) £500-£800

63 A Stoneware quill pot, dated September 20th 1858, Nottingham Decorated in relief with a Hunting scene and inscribed G.H. Harwood, Wesley Cottage, 10cm diameter, 6cm high. £150-£250

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64 OP An Ushak carpet, circa 1900, Western Turkey 317cm x 385cm £4,000-£6,000

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65 A large Charles I oak boarded chest, West Country, circa 1640 The lid with large strap hinges on the underside, the front carved with a bold and intricate strapwork frieze and three angels with wings outspread and heads that project forward in relief below grape clusters, the sides with V-cuts to form feet, 156cm wide, 60cm deep, 85cm high. ÂŁ3,000-ÂŁ5,000

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66 A German silver gilt chalice, mid 18th century Makers mark only IAH in a rectangle, struck twice, additionally struck with an early 19th Century Prussian storage mark, inscribed on the foot rim IGB 1742, the foot chased with flowers and C-scrolls below an urn-shaped knop set with coloured pastes, 24cm high. £300-£500

67 Of Derbyshire interest: A George II silver Communion cup, by Thomas Cooke and Richard Gurney (Grimwade No. 2324), London, 1732 Of plain form on trumpet foot, with contemporary inscription ‘A gift to the Presbiterian church in Wirksworth Derbyshire’ in flowing script, 294gm, 18.5cm high, together with a modern ciborium, London 1961, 165gm, 16cm high. (2) £300-£500

68 An early Victorian Irish silver sanctuary lamp by James Le Bas of Dublin, date letter rubbed, circa 1840 Embossed with a frieze of flowers, shells and C-scrolls, the domed base with a band of leafage and ball terminal, 19cm diameter, the body 24cm high. £300-£500

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69 OP A good and large Charles II silver paten or communion dish of plain tazza form, maker’s mark L.S crowned, (see Jackson’s revised edition, p.135), London, 1680 On wide tucked-in spreading foot, slightly sunken centre to top, 10.5oz. (326gm.) £2,000-£2,500 Jackson notes this maker as making patens. Michael Clayton discusses these large patens under his ‘Paten’ entry in his ‘The Collector’s Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America’ where he comments “not that large patens, made as separate objects, are by any means unknown”. He goes on to say that these large patens became necessary when household bread replaced the small wafer at the Communion service.

70 A Charles II silver charger, indistinctly marked, apparently ?L in a circle and marked with a crowned leopard’s head and crudely inscribed on back with date ‘1665’, London, circa 1665 The border embossed in high relief with large flowers and running stag, boar and hound, the centre engraved with a contemporary coat of arms surmounted by a helm beneath a crest and flanked by plumed mantling, 35cm diameter, 675gm. £1,000-£1,500

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71 A German brass tazza, 16th century With raised edge, embossed central swirl surrounded by bands of medieval lettering, standing on a tapered foot, 30cm diameter. £400-£600

72 A large brass alms dish, Dutch or German, early 17th century Depicting Adam and Eve to the centre and within two bands of lozenge and punched decoration, indistinctly stamped ‘DANICELD….’, 55cm diameter. £1,000-£1,500

73 A pair of brass pricket candlesticks, German, mid 17th century Each 37cm high. (2) £500-£800

74 A brass alms dish, Nuremberg, 16th century Depicting Adam and Eve, the rim punched but worn, 40cm diameter. £200-£400 32

75 A pair of brass pricket candlesticks, German, late 16th / early 17th century Each 31cm high. (2) Provenance: A gift to William Stokes from Sam Wolsey. £600-£800

77 A brass alms dish, Nuremberg, 16th century Depicting masks to the centre, the rim punch-marked, 37cm diameter. £300-£500

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76 A European gilt metal chalice, late 16th or early 17th century The hexafoil foot engraved with panels of saints and Christ, also applied with a small crucifix, 20.5cm high, together with a silver-plated chalice, 22.5cm high. (2) £800-£1,200

78 A large pair of George IV brass ornamental fire dogs, early 19th century Each with bulbous gadrooned columns and triform base, pointed finials atop, each 31cm wide, 81cm high. (2) £1,500-£2,500 Provenance: Purchased by William Stokes from Warwick Castle.

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79 An oak chest / counter table, 16th century and later With associated twin-panel lid above sides carved with Gothic tracery, on short stile feet, 83cm wide, 54cm deep, 37cm high. £800-£1,200 Provenance: Purchased by William Stokes from Haddon Hall, Derbyshire.

80 A Henry VIII oak counter table, circa 1540 With a triple-plank top above a triple parchemin panel front, standing on channel-moulded legs, the back with single panel and shadow of original lock and keyhole, the top with filled coin slot, 91cm wide, 55cm deep, 49cm high. £2,500-£4,000 The counter table is the term used to describe a table which originally had a top marked out with a series of lines and squares representing values and units which could be used for calculating accounts. The tables were fitted with a loose top which slid backwards on bearers so that coins could be swept into the recess below after being counted. Most extant examples now have the top hinged for ease of use, as in this example. In the 15th and 16th century cloths bearing the marked out lines were sometimes placed over the tables to perform the same function.

Comparative Literature: V. Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition,1979 & 2016 Figures 3:155 & 3:156 Wolsey & Luff, Furniture in England, The Age of The Joiner, 1968, Plate 122 Connoisseur Period Guides: The Tudor Period, 1956, Plate (16B) The Burrell Collection, Glasgow and The V&A Museum, London have examples in their collections.

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81 A James I oak press cupboard, Gloucestershire, circa 1620 Profusely carved overall with punched detail, dog-tooth edges and egg and dart framing, the friezes with stylised anthemion and bold gadrooning, the upper section with two doors applied with rosette-filled cartouches and flanked by caryatids and projecting columns, the lower section enclosed by doors with celtic swirl motifs, the sides with an unusual cross motif, 166cm wide, 62cm deep, 165cm high. ÂŁ3,000-ÂŁ5,000 Literature: J.T. Garside, Old English Furniture, London 1924, frontispiece.

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82 A large West Country oak wall settle, circa 1550 With plank seat and ten plain panels surmounted by arched crest-panels of Renaissance carving, including Romayne portraits of a bearded man, one end enclosed and having three hooks carved with human faces, 470cm long, 183cm high. £5,000-£10,000 Literature: Acton Surgey, 3 Bruton Street, Bond Street W1, an advertisement in The Connnoisseur, June 1936.

M. Adams-Acton, Wall seats and settles of the Sixteenth century.

The Connoisseur, March 1948.

R.W. Symonds, Domestic comfort in the Medieval Home: an illusion dispelled.The Connoisseur, June 1951.

V. Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, 1979 & 2016, Fig 3:10 and 3:10a.

This fine and rare wall settle belongs to a distinct group of settles from Devon and Somerset dating to the first half of the 16th century. Some have been documented in their farmhouse or hostelry locations and most have panels of linenfold. In the present example the panels are plainer and larger but have a more sophisticated cresting panel with Renaissance decoration including portrait medallions.

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83 Two brass mortars, one with pestle, English, 18th century 9cm and 8cm high. (3) £200-£400

84 A large bronze mortar and pestle, English, 17th century 27cm diameter, 21cm high. (2) £600-£800

85 A two-handled bronze mortar with fleur de lys decoration, English, late 17th century 14.5cm diameter, 11.5cm high. £300-£500

86 A small bronze two-handled mortar, Dutch, 17th century 8cm high. £200-£400

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87 A large bronze mortar with a band of shell and scroll decoration, English, 17th century 21cm diameter, 16cm high. £600-£1,000

88 A pair of iron firedogs, 17th century, cast with initials and date PB 1626 Each 76cm high. (2) £400-£600

89 Two pairs of English iron firedogs, late 17th / early 18th century 80cm high and 59cm high. (4) £500-£800

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90 A Charles II oak bed, Initialled and dated GB 1660 The head-board with four panels and pediment flanked by finials and bosses, 217cm long, 138cm wide, 125cm high. £500-£800 Comparative Literature: A similar shaped bed is illustrated in Wolsey & Luff, Furniture in England, The Age of the Joiner, 1968, plate 86.

91 A Charles II oak bed, circa 1660 The head-board with twin lunette panels and three plain panels, 212cm long, 130cm wide, 120cm high. £300-£500 Comparative Literature: A bed with similarities and dated 1669 is illustrated in V.Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, 1979 and 2016, fig 3:467a

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92 OP A James I oak three tier court cup-board, circa 1610 The upper and middle tier frieze containing a drawer and carved with rosettefilled guilloche and raised on leaf-carved and gadrooned bulbous columns with Ionic capitals, the back uprights stop-fluted and stiff-leaf carved, 121cm wide, 41cm deep, 122.5cm high. ÂŁ8,000-ÂŁ10,000

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93 A pair of brass lion candelabra, circa 1900 Each lion seated with curled tail and looking upwards holding the candle aloft, each 37cm high. (2) £1,000-£1,500

94 An English carved oak figure of a king, circa 1480, probably representing God the Father Mounted on a velvet back-board, 15cm wide, 46cm high (25.5cm wide, 53cm high including velvet). £2,000-£3,000

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95 A pair of English oak Heraldic lion newel post finials, early 17th century Each 62cm high, bases 21cm square. (2) ÂŁ3,000-ÂŁ5,000

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96 A Commonwealth oak box, the front carved REMEMBER THY END 1659 With shaped escutcheon, 48cm wide, 29.5cm deep, 22cm high. £500-£800

97 A Charles I oak box with indistinct ink handwriting across the front, circa 1640 24cm wide, 19cm deep, 13cm high. £250-£400

98 A William III chip-carved oak box, dated 1697 With geometric patterns and hexagonal motifs to sides, the escutcheon heart-shaped and the lid inset with hearts, the front inscribed: A MAN HIS MIND SHOULD NEVER SET UPON THE THING HE CANNOT GEET I:M MARCH THE 31 1697 19cm wide, 13cm deep, 11.5cm high. £500-£800

99 A Charles II oak box, relief carved with scrolling stylised flowers, circa 1680 64cm wide, 32cm deep, 23cm high. £400-£600

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100 A Queen Anne oak box, initialled and dated AB 1713 With incised and punch-decorated lattice-work front, 39cm wide, 23cm deep, 17cm high. £200-£400 101 No lot

102 A near pair of small boxes, late 17th / early 18th century One oak, the other elm and oak, both paper-lined, 15.5cm wide, 9.5cm deep, 6cm high and 14.5cm wide, 9.5cm deep, 6cm high respectively. (2) £200-£400

103 An Elizabethan or James I oak miniature plank chest With V-cut ends (one with blacksmith repair) and gouge decoration to the front edges, 22.5cm wide, 13.5cm deep, 18cm high. £400-£600

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104 Follower of John de Critz Portrait of King James I of England and VI of Scotland (1566-1625) Oil on panel 32.6cm x 26.8cm £3,000-£5,000 46

105 English School (17th century) Portrait of King Edward IV of England (1442-1483) Oil on panel 56cm x 25.5cm ÂŁ2,000-ÂŁ4,000 Provenance: (According to a label on the reverse) The Artist Samuel Woodforde R.A. (1763-1817); Acquired by William George, Bristol; Thence by descent to Winifred George (1897-1979), who married Cyril K Thorn (1893-1963) of Appleton Rectory, Berkshire. thepedestal.com

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106 A mid 18th century miniature brass lantern alarm timepiece by Jno. Stokes, No. 630 The strapped bell within five urn finials on slender columns and ball feet, with side door with iron hoop and spikes to the rear, the single handed 5” arched brass dial sign in a boss ‘Jno.Stokes ST.IVES. No 630’ over a Roman chapter ring, matted centre and alarm-setting disc, the weight driven movement with knife-edge verge escapement, 13cm wide, 9cm deep, 21cm high. £600-£1,000

107 An 18th century 30 hour longcase clock by Jno Stokes, St Ives, No. 734 The cavetto moulded cornice above a scrolling leaf carved frieze with a square glazed door flanked by split columns and glazed sides, the trunk with rectangular moulded door, on square moulded plinth base, the 11 inch square brass dial with urn spandrels framing the Roman and Arabic silvered chapter ring, signed on a silvered plate ‘Jno Stokes, No.734’, the matted centre with wide date sector and bold blued steel hands, the weight driven movement with anchor brass posted escapement, the strike operated via a toothed ‘count wheel’ to the outside of the frame, the hammer arbour and detent arbours mounted within shaped brass cross bars, 42cm wide, 23cm deep, 201cm high. £400-£600

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108 OP An unusual Charles II architectural oak enclosed chest The upper section with dentil-moulded cornice and a pair of frieze drawers decorated with strap-work, above a deep drawer applied with two pairs of male heads flanked by tapering cabochon-mounted columns, the lower section with a pair of doors applied with large cabochon-centred raised ovals and also flanked by similar tapering columns, inside the cupboard a further three oak drawers, 128cm wide, 62cm deep, 125cm high. £4,000-£6,000 This unusual chest with its architectural detail of tapered pilasters, panels centred with ovals and carved masks has broad similarities to the famous Jacobean screen at Audley End, near Saffron Walden in Essex.

109 OP An unusual Charles II oak and ash chest, circa 1660 Profusely carved overall with trailing leafy tendrils and three panels below a frieze asymmetrically carved with a serpentine like creature to one end, a pair of drawers below, the lid with single moulded board laid over an open frame, the sides with rows of gouged, incised and punched detail, 111cm wide, 46cm deep, 71cm high. £600-£800

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110 A small Charles II oak three-drawer chest, circa 1670 The frieze with dentil-mouldings and twin elongated bosses in cherrywood flanked by ebony buttons, each drawer with twin-panel fronts and the lower frieze rail carved with discs, each drawer is lined with woodcut prints of King Charles II and Catherine of Braganza holding hands, half-length within an oval, Charles holding a sword, Catherine holding a fan, a rose between them, 73.5cm wide, 44cm deep, 75cm high. £700-£1,000 Comparatives: The British Museum has an impression of this print in their collection (Museum number 1870,0709.764) The pose is strikingly similar to that of King Charles II and Catherine of Braganza on their wedding day in 1662, depicted in an engraving by Hugo Allard the Elder.

(Royal Collection Trust – RCIN 602675) Another similar in the V&A (E.1258-1933). This was catalogued in the 1982 Oman-Hamilton catalogue of V&A wallpapers as no.14, and its provenance is given as from a contemporary oak box for which it was used as lining paper.

The catalogue entry comments that 'another version of this paper, in the Public Record Office, was found in a chest at Sulgrave Manor'.

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111 A Charles II cedar, cherrywood and snakewood fourdrawer chest, circa 1670 With cleated top and dentil-moulded frieze above twin-panel drawers with raised or geometric mouldings flanked by smaller vertical panels, on later feet, the sides of oak, 102cm wide, 65cm deep, 93cm high. £1,500-£2,500

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112 A Queen Anne oak press cupboard, Lakeland, dated and initialled IW 1712 Carved overall with lunette and scroll motifs and incised detail, the upper section enclosed by a pair of small doors either side of a lozenge carved panel and flanked by projecting columns, the lower section enclosed by a pair of panelled doors, stamped TR upper right corner, 147cm wide, 56cm deep, 171cm high. £1,200-£1,800

113 A Charles I oak press cupboard, circa 1640 Carved with scrolls, strapwork and lunettes, enclosed by a pair of upper doors either side of an arcaded panel and flanked by projecting columns, above a pair of larger panelled doors, the roof board pierced for ventilation, 151cm wide, 58cm deep, 160cm high. £1,500-£2,500

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114 Circle of Ignacius van der Beker (1689-1773) After the hunt Oil on canvas 57cm x 73.5cm £1,500-£2,500

115 Manner of Henry Alken Cock Fighting Oil on canvas, possibly over a printed base 38cm x 55cm £300-£500

116 English School (19th century) Travellers resting in a landscape with ruins beyond Oil on canvas 63cm x 81cm £200-£300

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117 Circle of John Riley Portrait of a gentleman, three quarter length, before a column Oil on canvas 126.5cm x 102cm £1,000-£1,500

118 Follower of Gilbert Jackson Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a red dress Oil on canvas 72.5cm x 63cm £800-£1,200

119 English School (18th century) Portrait of a young boy holding a dove Oil on canvas 54.5cm x 45cm £800-£1,200

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120 Manner of David Teniers Peasants smoking in an interior Oil on panel Unframed 17.5cm x 19.5cm together with three unframed oils by different hands (4) £300-£500

121 Italian School (20th century) Madonna and Child Oil on panel, arched top unframed 36cm x 22.8cm £300-£500

122 Italian School (18th century) Male study Red chalk drawing 42cm x 29cm £500-£800

123 After Stefano Mulinari At the Entrance to Rome (after Federico Zuccheri) Etching 29cm x 16cm £100-£150

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124 Venice, a pair of coloured engravings each 27cm x 43cm, framed, together with a print ‘View of the Great Arsenal at Venice 1749’, 29cm x 44cm, framed. (3) £200-£300

126 A pair of coloured stipple engravings: The Abbey in Cirencester, The seat of Thomas Master Esq. & Cirencester, the seat of Allen Bathurst Esq. each 39cm x 41cm, together with a View of Cirencester, 1804, 24cm x 30cm, and a Plan of Lands at Siddington in the County of Gloucestershire, 1805, 35cm x 58cm, all framed under glass. (4) £200-£400

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125 Oliver Cromwell, a framed engraving 36cm x 29cm. £200-£300

127 Windsor Castle aquatint, after Samuel Alken 39cm x 68cm, framed, and another view of Windsor Castle, 39cm x 53cm, framed. (2) £150-£250 55

128 OP A Mahal carpet, West Persia, circa 1920 318cm x 208cm. £1,000-£1,500

129 OP A Bakhtiar carpet, West Persia, circa 1920 313cm x 219cm. £1,500-£2,500

130 A Malayer runner, West Persia, circa 1900 407cm x 158cm. £400-£600

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131 OP A Lori Pambak carpet, dated 1338 (1920) 290cm x 278cm. £4,500-£6,000 132 No lot thepedestal.com

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133 A North African bone and copper bulbous jar or vase with lid, 20th century Brass finial atop, 43cm high. £150-£250

134 A Pueblo pottery (Mexico) vase 34cm diameter. £200-£400

135 An Italian bronze relief figure of the Archangel Gabriel, 17th or early 18th century 16.5cm high. £300-£500

136 A Flemish bronze figure of the crowned Virgin Mary, circa 1400 Mounted on red velvet backing, 11cm high. £1,000-£1,500 58

137 An Italian alabaster group of the Virgin and child, 16th century The Virgin enthroned with the Christ child on her knee, damaged, 62cm high. £2,000-£3,000

138 A small alabaster figure of St Catherine, medieval style 15cm high. £400-£600

139 A Gothic alabaster altar frame supporter, circa 1500 23cm x 13cm. £200-£300

140 ¥ Adoration of the Magi, carved white marble Flemish, early 18th century Signed with initials STA, under glass and rosewood framed, 16cm x 33cm. £1,000-£1,500

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141 ¥ A small German or Flemish ivory panel of The Annunciation, 18th century 15cm wide, 10cm high. £400-£600

142 A brass figure of a Bishop, 18th century and a pair of figures carrying crosses, mounted together on plinth, late 19th century 26cm high and 22cm high respectively, together with another pair of brass figures, 18th century, each 21cm high. (4) £300-£500

(part lot) 143 A silvered copper processional cross, Italian, 16th century Engraved with symbols and portraits of the Apostles, Saints and God the Father and with a later applied brass figure of Christ to the centre, 29cm wide, 38cm high, together with a small German Historismus cross centred by portraits of Mary and another, English import marks for Berthold Muller, Chester 1909, 8cm high. (4) £800-£1,200

144 A small brass bowl, 17th century Engraved to the rim TC 1676, 15.5cm diameter, together with a small brass candlestick, 18th century, engraved J.Willoughby, 9cm high. (2) £200-£400 60

145 A European gilt metal Reliquary, late 16th or early 17th century The steeple top encircled by six steepled towers flanking six glass windows, each centred by a pillar and pierced with circles and trefoils, below a ball and cross finial, the facetted knopped stem set with large coloured pastes, on polyfoil foot engraved with diaperwork lozenges, 51cm high. £1,200-£1,800

146 A Dutch copper pot pourri basket with pierced lid, 18th century Embossed foliate decoration and punched with crescent motifs, twist handle, 18cm diameter, 23cm high. £200-£400

147 A Dutch brass lidded peat bucket, late 18th century 38cm high, together with a large brass log bin, 19th century, 42cm diameter. (2) £200-£400

148 A small Italian bronze facetted bucket with handle, 18th century 13cm diameter, 14cm high. £200-£300

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149 An English polychrome pine figure of a Bishop, early 17th century 22cm wide, 74cm high, together with a small Gothic canopy, 38cm high. (2) £2,000-£3,000

150 A Flemish walnut figure of St Peter preaching, early 17th century 36cm high. £400-£600 62

151 An English carved oak figure of an angel, circa 1480 Within a moulded frame and with stippled background, mounted on velvet background, 44cm wide x 53cm high. £800-£1,200 Comparative Literature: Tracy ‘English Medieval Furniture and Woodwork’ 1988, plate 15 (a corbel) and plate 54 (a panel) show similarities in the way the hair is carved

152 A pair of large parcel gilt and polychrome figures of seated angels, South German, early 18th century Each 34cm wide, 71cm high. (2) £2,500-£3,500

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153 A very tall pair of brass figural fire dogs, 18th / 19th century 36cm wide, 94cm high. (2) £800-£1,200

154 A cast iron fireback, 17th century Initialled and dated VHE 1685, 110cm wide, 67cm high. £300-£500

155 A cast iron fireback, 17th century With initials WS 92cm wide, 50cm high. £300-£500

156 OP An iron and brass fire grate, probably French, circa 1900, Regence style With railed basket and rectangular back with cherub silhouette, flanked by shaped standards with foliate and scroll detail, standing on paw feet and with flame finials, 81cm wide, 40cm deep, 62cm high. £400-£600 64

157 A cast iron plaque or stove plate dated 1571 Depicting a preacher in a pulpit within a wreath and annotated ST:OL, mounted on wooden backing board, 26cm wide, 32cm high. £400-£600

158 A cast iron Wealden fireback, 16th century style With design of shield, rose and crown, roses, two leopards and imp-like figures. £300-£500 Comparative Literature: See Hodgkinson, British cast-iron Firebacks 2010, Figs 80 and 81 for similar examples.

159 A pair of large iron firedogs, 17th century Hung with loops, each 94cm high. (2) £300-£500

160 OP An iron and brass fire grate, probably French, circa 1900 The spindle gallery basket with brass finials flanked by standards with tasselled drapery and lion mask cartouches, 88cm wide, 52cm deep, 60cm high. £400-£600

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161 A bronze sundial, engraved 1693 Mounted on a stone pedestal, 59cm high. £300-£500

162 A pair of lead planter troughs, 18th / 19th century The sides with rectangular cartouche design, each 131cm wide, 34cm deep, 28cm high. (2) £800-£1,200

163 A carved stone lion, 18th / 19th century 58cm wide, 30cm high. £200-£400

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164 A set of four composite stone urns on square columns, 19th century Each 128cm high. (4) £800-£1,200

165 OP A pair of 19th century carved white veined marble Campana urns The circular moulded flaring rims above turned and lobed bodies, on turned socles and later square plinth bases, 61cm diameter, 70cm high. (2) £1,500-£2,000

166 A pair of large architectural brackets, probably 18th century Each carved with a flower head and now with mounted iron bracket, each 81cm high. (2) £200-£400

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167 Two bronze herons, circa 1900 82cm and 65cm high respectively. £200-£400

168 A stone fountain, 19th century The column modelled as a dolphin, on plinth, 50cm wide, 46cm deep, 89cm high. £200-£300

169 A pair of architectural stone plinths, 19th century Carved with panels of flaming torches, each 76cm high. (2) £200-£400

170 A stone mortar with reeded edge and tapering to a foliate knop below, 19th century In a metal stand, 29cm diameter, 47cm high, together with two other smaller stone mortars. (3) £200-£400

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171 OP An English Medieval stone head of a man, smiling and with high cheek bones, circa 1500 Now mounted on a modern oak plinth, 13cm wide (36cm including plinth) x 18cm high. £1,000-£1,500

172 A classical marble head of Pan, 18th / 19th century 25cm high. £200-£400

173 A Roman marble head of a male, probably 2nd century A.D. Mounted on a marble plinth, 18cm high. £500-£800

174 Two English blackened sandstone architectural heads, 19th century Each 30cm high. (2) £200-£400

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175 A small oak chest or log bin, adapted from a larger 16th century chest The front carved with stylised fruit and leaf pattern within a gouge-carved frame, the sides with incised cross and iron handles, 38cm wide, 38cm deep, 48cm high. £400-£600

176 A small Charles I oak joined stool, circa 1640 With channel-moulded friezes and baluster legs joined by stretchers, one stretcher stamped with the initial ‘M’, 43cm wide, 24cm high, 38cm high. £600-£1,000

177 A Charles I figured oak table, circa 1640 With oval top, plain channelled friezes and turned legs joined by square stretchers, 49cm wide, 51cm deep, 55cm high. £800-£1,200

178 A small Charles II oak gate-leg table, circa 1680 With rectangular twin-flap top and frieze drawer, on baluster legs with original feet, 67cm wide, 56.5cm deep, 70cm high. £800-£1,200 Provenance: A gift to William Stokes from Sam Wolsey, the London dealer.

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179 A Charles I cedar or cypress wood boarded chest, circa 1630 The front emblazoned with the Royal coat of arms and initials CR (Carolus Rex) for King Charles and flanked by elaborate female caryatids within arcades, the stand depicting griffins and centred with a rose, the design is deeply incised and filled with black mastic, 139cm wide, 60cm deep, 79cm high. £1,500-£2,500 Comparative Literature: A related chest is shown in V. Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, ACC 1979 & 2016, Figure 3:357, though with initials IR for King James.

Provenance: Chests of this type are typically associated with the South West of England and are thought to have been imported. This particular example was purchased in Somerset and the provenance given as the same local family for many generations (Greenslade Taylor Hunt, 25 July 2002, Lot 332).

180 A small Charles I oak stool, circa 1640 The seat upholstered in 18th century crimson and gold velvet with tassels, on baluster legs joined by stretchers, 37cm square, 40cm high £800-£1,200 Literature: T. Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500-1700, ACC 2009, Plate 363, now re-upholstered by William Stokes.

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181 A William and Mary oak spice cabinet, circa 1690 The door applied with mouldings to mirror the drawer arrangement within, which number six, 41cm wide, 23cm deep, 27cm high. £300-£500

182 A small Charles II figured oak two-drawer chest, circa 1680 The top drawer geometrically moulded, the bottom drawer with twin raised panels, each flanked by pyramidal bosses, on stile feet, 83cm wide, 56cm deep, 69.5cm high. £700-£1,000

183 A small Charles II oak side table, circa 1670 With frieze drawer and baluster legs joined by square stretchers, 66cm wide, 36cm deep, 56cm high. £300-£500

184 A Charles I oak joined stool, circa 1640 With channel-moulded friezes with incised and punched detail and scrolling lower edge, on baluster legs joined by square stretchers, 55cm wide, 31cm deep, 54cm high. £1,000-£1,500

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185 A small Charles II oak stool, circa 1660 Covered in later crimson velvet, on ring-turned columnar legs joined by stretchers, 43cm wide, 43cm deep, 43cm high. £400-£600 Literature: T. Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500-1700, ACC 2009, Plate 367, now reupholstered by William Stokes.

186 A Charles II oak gateleg table, circa 1680 With oval top and plain friezes, on baluster legs joined by square stretchers and standing on original feet, 167cm extended, 147cm deep, 70cm high. £800-£1,200

187 A small Charles II oak two-door panelled cupboard, circa 1680 Channel-moulded throughout and standing on stile feet, the interior green painted, Shrewsbury Depository label to reverse, 112cm wide, 44.5cm deep, 150cm high. £600-£1,000

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189 OP A Kazak rug, last quarter 19th century 190cm x 150cm. £1,200-£1,800

188 OP A Heriz runner, North West Persia, circa 1910 97cm x 435cm. £1,000-£1,500 74

190 OP A Kordi rug, Persian, circa 1900 205cm x 135cm. £1,000-£15,000

191 OP A Shirvan carpet, Caucasus, circa 1910 330cm x 202cm. £4,500-£5,500

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192 A carved walnut architectural fragment table lamp modelled as a cherub sitting on another’s shoulders, 17th century 60cm high. £200-£400

193 A near pair of embossed brass table lamps with triform bases, circa 1900 Each 61cm high approx. £200-£400

194 Pair of large table lamps carved with foliage and cherub heads, with triform bases and paw feet, late 19th century Each 70cm high. (2) £200-£400

195 A large brass table lamp, 20th century 61cm high and another similar. (2) £100-£150

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196 A pair of table lamps, modelled as columns with Ionic capitals, early 20th century Each 62cm high. (2) £200-£400

197 A pair of blue / green and parcel gilt table lamps with triform bases and paw feet, 19th century Each 58cm high. (2) £200-£400

198 A pair of carved and limed standard lamps, circa 1900 Each with triform wrought iron scrolling bases, each 180cm high approx, together with a wrought iron standard lamp. (3) £400-£600

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199 A large silvered wood standard lamp 10cm high, together with another standard lamp. (2) £200-£400 (part lot) thepedestal.com

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200 A large brass alms dish, Nuremberg, 16th century Depicting ‘The Annunciation’, within bands of script and punch-marks, the broad rim punchmarked and decorated with stags and hounds, indistinctly stamped HLI.S, 54cm diameter. £1,500-£2,500

201 A brass alms dish, Nuremberg, 16th century The centre with swirling lobes, the rim punched with the paschal lamb, 48cm diameter. £400-£600

202 A George III brass footman, circa 1780 The top decoratively pierced, standing on baluster legs, 51cm wide, 25cm deep, 16cm high. £200-£300 78

203 A large brass alms dish, Dutch or German, early 17th century Depicting Adam and Eve to the centre and within two bands of lozenge and punched decoration, 52.5cm diameter. £1,000-£1,500

204 A brass alms dish, Nuremberg, 16th century Depicting Adam and Eve within a band of lettering, the rim punch-marked, 41cm diameter. £500-£800

205 An English brass and wrought iron warming pan, 17th century Chased with flowers and birds and a Sun to the centre, worn, 32cm diameter, 101cm long. £200-£400

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206 A pair of brass candlesticks with octagonal bases, French, early 18th century Each 19.5cm high. (2) £200-£400

208 A pair of Italian giltwood pricket candlesticks, 18th century Each 65cm high. (2) £500-£800

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207 A pair of tall George III brass candlesticks Each 26.5cm high, together with a small brass box engraved with birds and figures, circa 1900, 15.5cm wide, 9cm high, a George III petal base brass candlestick, 17.5cm high, a pair of brass snuffers 11cm high and another pair of candlesticks 18cm high. (7) £300-£500

209 A pair of giltwood urn-shaped table lamps, 18th century, adapted Each 39cm high. (2) £200-£400

210 Two Dutch knives, probably late 17th century With cast silver figural handles in the form of a mother with children, emblematic of Charity, the larger with Amsterdam town mark, indistinct maker’s (?) mark and later Dutch control mark; the smaller just with later Dutch control mark, both with original steel blades, 22.2cm and 17.5cm long. £200-£300

211 A German embossed silvered copper dish, late 17th century Centred with a seated figure beside a tree within an inner beaded border and rim chased with scrolling foliage, 24cm wide. £200-£300

212 A pair of large Dutch unmarked silver embroidery spikes, probably 18th century Each circular top embossed with a vase of flowers within a stamped border, the blades engraved with trailing foliage, each 27cm long. £200-£300

213 An early 18th century silver-mounted leather tankard, makers mark only DC in oval, probably provincial, circa 1700 Of tapering form, the silver rim with cut-out acanthus leaf edge, engraved with a single vertical band of chevrons and inscribed with contemporary initials I*M, untraced, 11.6cm high. £300-£500 Provenance: The Fieldhouse Collection W.J Fieldhouse acquired the title of Lord of the Manor of Henley in Arden, Warwickshire in 1913. He purchased and restored a property in the town which had formerly been the medieval Guild Hall. thepedestal.com

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214 A collection of eight polychrome Delft plates, late 18th century Each plate dated, each 24cm diameter. (8) £600-£800

215 A pair of Dutch Delft globular vases, 18th century With floral decoration, each 45cm high. (2) £200-£400

216 Jonah and the Whale, a Dutch blue and white charger, circa 1900 Marked MAKKUM to underside, 37cm diameter. £300-£500

217 A Delft polychrome fluted dish, 18th century Depicting a peacock and with lobed border, 34cm diameter, together with an agateware dish depicting masks and flowers, 22cm diameter. (2) £200-£400

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218 Four English Delft plates, late 18th century Three polychrome, one blue and white, two at 30cm, 24cm and 34.5cm diameter respectively. (4) £300-£500 219 No lot

220 A pair of Italian maiolica salt dishes, 17th century Faenza, each modelled as sphinxes, together with a pair of triangular salts and two others. (6) £300-£500

221 Two Italian earthenware paint decorated two-handled urns Each dated to the reverse, the larger 1741, the smaller 1761, 44cm and 34cm high. (2) £200-£400

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222 A Delft blue and white bowl dated 1671 The outside decorated with a figure amongst scenery, 15cm diameter, 9cm high, together with a Delft bowl with polychrome floral decoration, 26cm diameter, 14cm high. (2) £200-£400

223 An English Delft blue and white flower brick, 18th century 16cm wide, 9cm high. £150-£250

224 An earthenware figure of a blue speckled sheep, English, 18th century 19cm wide, 13cm high. £200-£400

225 A pair of earthenware plaques depicting biblical stories, 18th century Each 16cm diameter, framed. (2) £300-£500

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226 A collection of Bilston enamels, 19th century (20) £150-£250

227 A medieval coin depicting the Royal arms, circa 1340-1377 4cm diameter, together with two other Medieval copper alloy tokens and a horse harness pendant; and an 18th century iron seal fob. (5) £150-£250

229 A set of black and white fossilised marble octagonal plates, 20th century the larger 30cm wide. (8) £100-£150

(one of a pair) 228 A pair of French pewter wall sconces, 20th century Each with shaped back plate and single light in a drip tray, decorated with punch marks and floral rosettes, each 20cm wide, 33cm high. (2) £300-£500

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231 Two steel flesh forks, 17th century, one dated 1696 56cm and 48cm long, together with an Ell rule, indistinctly marked, probably 17th century, 83cm long, a large fireside log fork, 18th century, 106cm long and various other iron and wrought iron implements. (15) £400-£600

232 Various pewter items, 18th and 19th century Including a candlestick, a cup, a pint mug, a large goblet, a cauldron and an engraved half-pint cup, the large goblet 25cm high. (8) £150-£250

233 Two pairs of English engraved steel ember tongs, 17th or 18th century One with acorn finial, the other modelled with a pair of hands, each 38cm long. (2) £200-£400 86

234 A small English engraved steel flesh-hook rack, late 17th / early 18th century Engraved in detail with a Hunting scene of boar, deer, dogs and huntsmen, Diana with bow and quiver and soldiers, 22.5cm wide, 11.5cm high. £300-£500

235 A large pewter bowl engraved PH, 18th century 46cm diameter, 7cm high, together with another smaller. (2) £200-£400

236 A pair of English pewter candlesticks, late 18th century Each 23cm high. (2) £200-£400

237 An embossed leather panel, Spanish, 17th century Depicting a coat of arms in central cartouche flanked by birds, trees and two figures holding a bow and arrow, 41cm x 30cm. £200-£400

238 ¥ A Medieval style silvered metal crucifix 9cm wide, 11cm high, together with an 18th century ivory figure of Christ, seated, 18th century, 8cm high. (2) £200-£400

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239 OP A late 17th/early 18th century wrought iron three light chandelier With giltwood knop, 73cm high. £800-£1,200 Provenance: The Roger Warner Collection, Christie’s South Kensington, 20/21 January 2009, Lot 112.

Comparative Literature: J Seymour Lyndsay, Iron and Brass Implements of the English House, 1970, fig 288 in which a drawing of a similar 3-branch chandelier from Randle Holme's Academy of Armory (published 1688) is shown.

Hilliard, Chandeliers, 2001, p.37 and Ayres, Domestic Interiors 1500 – 1850, 2003, Fig 68 show related examples, the latter in Oxford City and County Museums.

240 A large six-light brass chandelier, 19th century Each branch adorned with grapes and obelisks and with drop finial reflectors to the upper tier, a bearded warrior sitting atop, a ball knop below, 77cm wide, 82cm high. £1,200-£1,800

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241 A pair of iron garden gates, late 19th century/early 20th century Of pierced and scrolling design with square section uprights, fully restored, 168cm wide, 186cm high £800-£1,200

242 A large rivetted copper vat, 19th century 90cm diameter, 18cm high. £200-£400

243 A pair of stone lions, 19th century 31cm wide, 24cm high, together with a smaller pair of cast iron lions. (4) £1,200-£1,800

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244 A collection of hand-coloured engravings of 17th century county maps:Lincolnshire and Gloucestershire by Robert Morden in bird’s eye maple frames each 45cm x 51cm (a pair), Cornwall by William Kip, Wiltshire by Richard Blome 1673, The Road from London to Oakeham by John Ogilby Glocestria 13cm x 17cm together with two 19th century maps: A New map of the County of Gloucester 1808 and Map of the County of Rutland by C & J Greenwood, London 73cm x 87cm, all framed. (8) £300-£500

245 Of Kent interest, a 17th century hand-coloured land plan; ‘A Description of certaine parcells of land lying in the severall parisshes of Mydley, Old Romney & Lydd and also at Warehorne, Kanardrington & Woodchurch in ye County of Kent, belonging to Willm. Tyndall Esq.’ ‘Measured and Mappt by Tho: Hill, sworne surveyor 1687’, 58cm x 69cm, framed under glass. £200-£400

246 Of Somerset interest: A letter of complaint ‘To the churchwardens and overseer of the Poor of the Parish of Upton Noble, Somerset’, dated 24 May 1722 29cm x 19cm, together with an Indenture dated 6 April 1683, 50cm x 68cm, and a Will, dated 25 March 1727, 75cm x 64cm, all framed under glass. (3) £150-£250 90

247 An Ethiopian devotional, 19th century Chip-carved and with a hollow toggle atop for affixing to a necklace or belt, with a door on both sides opening to painted images of figures including the Virgin Mary, Christ and St George slaying the dragon, some words hand-written in Geez and with a paper-label attached to the underside which reads indistinctly ‘A charm taken from her neck by an Abyssinian girl and given to Captain Lambard during the campaign of 1868’, 7.5cm x 9.5cm. £200-£400 This refers to the British punitive expedition of 1867/68 to Abyssinia to rescue captive missionaries held by the emperor Theodore (Tewodros) II by a combined British and Indian army under the command of General Sir Robert Napier.

Captain Lambard of the 45th Foot is recorded as having been present at the siege of Magdala for which he was awarded the Abyssinan campaign medal. It was at this battle that the emperor, realising he had lost the day, shot himself with a pistol that had been presented to him by Queen Victoria.

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248 A large English heraldic panel, late 16th or early 17th century Depicting an armorial cartouche held by monkeys, each with one foot resting on a barrel, all below a helm surmounted by a dragon amongst intertwined grape clusters, 38.5cm wide, 56cm high. £500-£800

249 OP An oak ‘Green Man’ panel and a pierced foliate boss, both 17th century Together with a small oak nailed stool, 18th century, 22cm x 28cm, 23cm x 25cm and 24cm wide respectively. (3) £500-£700

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250 A Charles I figured oak joined stool table, circa 1640 With oval top and scroll-carved friezes, on turned legs joined by stretchers, 51cm wide, 53cm deep, 55cm high. £700-£1,000

251 A small Charles II oak gate-leg table, circa 1680 With oval twin-flap top and frieze drawer, on ball-turned legs joined by square stretchers, 84cm wide, 66cm deep, 71.5cm high. £600-£1,000

252 A small Charles II walnut stool, circa 1680 Covered in later crimson and gold damask, on spiral twist legs and similar stretchers, 41cm wide, 34cm deep, 38cm high. £500-£800 Literature: T. Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500-1700, ACC 2009, Plate 372, now re-upholstered by William Stokes.

253 A George I elm box stool / close stool, circa 1720 With hinged lid and cabriole legs with pointed pad feet, 45cm wide, 38cm deep, 46cm high. £200-£400

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254 A Charles II figured oak low table, circa 1660 With a single plank top, plain friezes and baluster legs joined by stretchers, 64cm wide, 49.5cm deep, 53cm high. £600-£1,000

255 A Charles I figured oak low joined stool, circa 1640 With a square seat, ogee scrolling frieze and baluster legs with square stretchers, 36cm wide, 35.5cm deep, 36cm high. £1,000-£1,500

256 A small George III oak cupboard, circa 1770 Enclosed by a pair of doors with arched fielded panels and a frieze drawer below, on stile feet, 65cm wide, 46cm deep, 91cm high. £400-£600

257 OP A pair of Charles II brass-studded leather upholstered chairs, circa 1660 Each with block and ball turned legs joined by a spiral front stretcher, each stamped IB, each 49cm wide, 41cm deep, 86cm high. (2) £1,000-£1,500

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258 OP A Heriz carpet, North West Persia, circa 1920 273cm x 367cm. £1,500-£2,000

259 OP A Kurdish Bidjar runner, North West Persia, circa 1900 104cm x 567cm £1,000-£1,500

260 OP An Ushak carpet, Central Persia, circa 1910 338cm x 311cm. £800-£1,200 94

261 OP A Turkoman carpet, mid 19th century 158cm x 274cm £2,500-£3,500

262 OP A Turkish village runner, circa 1875 158cm x 274cm £1,000-£1,500

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263 OP An Elizabethan or James I oak plank chest, circa 1600 With channel-moulded lid and Vcut ends, the front carved with two large foliate lunettes, 105cm wide, 38cm deep, 82cm high. £1,200-£1,800

264 OP A Charles I oak chest front, West Country, circa 1640 The three panels filled with foliate lozenges within arcades, surrounded by rosette-filled guilloche frieze and uprights, probably Exeter, 145cm wide, 63cm high. £500-£800

265 A carved oak headboard for a bed, part 17th century, part 19th century 217cm wide, 54cm high. £200-£400

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266 OP A Zieglar carpet, Central Persia, circa 1900 340cm x 230cm. ÂŁ4,500-ÂŁ5,500

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267 An English carved oak panel depicting a bearded gentleman, dated 1539 Head and shoulders, wearing a hat, dated on the ribbon adjacent to his head, within a wreath, a berried leaf to each corner, 28cm x 29cm. £600-£800

268 An English portrait medallion panel, circa 1530 30cm x 10cm, together with a 16th century panel carved with a hippocampus, 31cm x 17cm. (2) £200-£400

269 An English carved oak panel of St Andrew, mid 17th century Depicted holding a saltire (diagonal cross), 20cm wide, 46cm high. £200-£400 98

270 A set of three carved oak panels, English, circa 1550 Depicting Edward VI (1547-1553), King Solomon and the Motto of the Order of the Garter ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’ around a Tudor Rose King Edward with his right hand on his sword, King Solomon holding a staff of office in his right hand, each within a carved border, mounted in modern oak and marblised parcel gilt frames, each 42.5cm square including frame. (3) £5,000-£8,000 Literature: V. Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition,1979 and 2016, Fig 4:25.

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271 A pair of carved oak goblins or imps, late 16th / early 17th century One male, one female, both crouched, feet missing, each 34cm high. (2) £1,200-£1,800 Provenance: A gift to William Stokes from Sam Wolsey.

272 A pair of Elizabethan carved oak sitting winged beast supporters, circa 1580 Remains of polychrome decoration, originally positioned on a court cupboard, each 39cm high. (2) £1,500-£2,500

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273 A carved oak heraldic dragon newel post finial, English, circa 1550 51cm high. £1,500-£2,500 Provenance: Bradninch Manor, Devon Literature: M.Jourdain, English Decoration and Furniture of the Early Renaissance, London 1924, plate 244.

274 An Elizabethan carved oak panel, 16th century Depicting the Lion and the Unicorn flanking a rose, 65cm x 17cm. £400-£600

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275 A large brass candlestick, dated 1612 The date engraved on the knop, the circular base associated but earlier in date, 17.5cm diameter, 23cm high. £300-£500

276 A pair of adjustable brass wall sconces, part 17th century, part 19th century Each 31cm wide. (2) £300-£500

277 A pair of brass ejector candlesticks, English, early 18th century Each 18cm high. (2) £300-£500

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278 A pair of brass baluster candlesticks, French, early 18th century Each 15cm high. (2) £200-£400

279 A pair of giltwood candlesticks, 19th century Together with three giltwood triform candlesticks. (5) £200-£400

280 A George II giltwood girandole, circa 1720 With shaped rocaille surround, the plate bevelled, the candlebranch arm later in date, 26cm wide, 67cm high. £400-£600

281 A Charles II giltwood frame, circa 1680 The crest with cherubs holding a wreath, the apron centred with a shell and the sides with further cherubs, later mirror plate, 39.5cm wide, 52cm high. £800-£1,200 thepedestal.com

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282 OP A William and Mary silver tankard, maker’s mark a monogram SL, the small S superimposed on the large L (see Jackson’s revised edition p.147 for a slightly different drawing of this mark), London, 1693 With tapering sides and flat top, twisted scroll thumbpiece, handle terminating in a plain escutcheon, front engraved with a large contemporary coat of arms within plumed mantling, acanthus leaf and floral engraving extending down handle around initials ‘B’ over ‘? A’, 17cm high, 19oz. (589gm.) £5,000-£6,000

283 OP A William and Mary silver porringer, maker’s mark RT, mullet above and below, London, 1691 (see Jackson’s revised edition, p.145) The scroll side handles terminating in birds’ heads, sides chased with broad band of acanthus leaves below a leafy girdle, base inscribed ‘M’ over ‘I*M’ and ‘MR’, 11.6cm diameter, 9cm high, 7oz. (217gm.) £2,000-£2,500

284 OP A pair of William III silver candlesticks by Richard Syng, London, 1698 With cylindrical fluted columns, wide octagonal knops and conforming bases, with gadroon borders, the fluted bases incorporating vacant oval cartouches flanked by foliate scroll mantling, the bases of both sticks engraved with combined scratch-weight ‘13=5=0’, 16cm high 13oz. (403gm.) £3,500-£4,500

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285 OP Charles II walnut and feather banded cabinet on stand, circa 1670 The upper part with a pair of frieze drawers and a pair of cupboard doors enclosing nine various drawers around a central cupboard door enclosing four small drawers, the lower part with a long drawer on twist supports joined by flattened stretchers, on bun feet, 117cm wide, 51.5cm deep, 154cm high. £4,000-£6,000 This unusual cabinet on stand displays features of an early stage and date in the development of this form of cabinet: notably the twin flat fronted drawers, walnut drawer linings, sunken rather than surface mounted hinges and broad waist mouldings.

The tight twists to the drawing of the legs would also seem to indicate an early date rather than the more ‘open’ twists seen in the later decades of the 17th century.

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286 A Charles I walnut and oak joined stool, circa 1640 The top in walnut and with bicuspid frieze rail, on baluster legs with high stretchers, stamped MW, 47cm wide, 28cm deep, 55cm high. £1,200-£1,800

287 OP A Charles I oak armchair, West Country, circa 1640 The back panel carved with a foliate arcade flanked by stiff leaf uprights and surmounted by a lunette crest rail with scroll detail, the arms on ring-turned tapering supports matching the legs, probably Somerset, 56cm wide, 40cm deep, 109cm high. £2,000-£3,000

288 A James I oak joined stool, circa 1610 With arcaded and flattened arch friezes, on turned legs, 42cm wide, 26cm deep, 51.5cm high. £800-£1,200

289 Three elm stools, late 18th century One oval, two trestle type, 33cm wide, 40cm high; 36cm wide, 38cm high; 26cm wide, 17cm high respectively. (3) £200-£400

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290 OP A Charles I oak livery cupboard, circa 1640 The central door and canted sides all applied with diamond bosses and flanked by projecting columns below a dentil cornice, on turned column legs, the frieze, apron and under-tier all applied with facetted bosses, 139cm wide, 38cm deep, 120cm high. £3,000-£5,000

291 A William III oak three-drawer dresser, circa 1700 Geometrically moulded drawer-fronts and with a wavy frieze, a single-board top and baluster legs on original feet, 201.5cm wide, 50cm deep, 80.5cm high. £2,000-£4,000 thepedestal.com

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292 A large drop-end Knole sofa, circa 1930 Upholstered in faded green tasselled velvet and with 18th Century tapestry strip on the back, birch framed and on brass castors, 202cm wide, 75cm deep, 97cm high. £400-£600

293 A large Knole sofa, late 20th century Upholstered in tasselled red velvet, oak framed and on brass castors, 202cm wide, 75cm deep, 102cm high. £400-£600 108

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294 A large sycamore dairy bowl, mid 19th century 44cm diameter. £200-£300

295 A pair of large platters, mid 19th century One sycamore, one beech, each 43cm diameter. (2) £200-£400

296 A group of treen tableware, 19th century Including sycamore bowls, platters and trenchers, the largest 39cm. (qty) £300-£500

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297 A group of treen objects, mostly 19th century Including a large dairy bowl, 45cm diameter, an oval dairy bowl, 35cm diameter, a pair of coasters, two lead-weighted door stops, a truncheon, a wig-stand, pestles. (qty) £300-£500

298 A sycamore dairy bowl, late 18th century 35cm x 33.5cm diameter. £200-£400 299 No lot

300 A set of three mahogany graduated circular trays, 18th century largest 56cm diameter. (3) £200-£400

301 A Victorian yew-wood, satinwood, harewood and sycamore rectangular tray With central monogram, 57cm wide, together with a burr-ash chopping board 43cm x 27.5cm and a burr-elm octagonal board (originally a table top), 48cm wide. (3) £200-£400

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302 ¥ Two silver pique ivory-handled palmwood and malacca walking canes One initialled and dated WS 1701, the other TC 91, 85cm and 89cm respectively, together with five other walking canes. (7) £400-£1,000

303 A pair of small George III brass drip-pan candlesticks Each 11cm high together with another small pair with oval bases, each 8.5cm high, both 18th century. (2) £300-£500

304 A pair of French bronze candlesticks with foliate socle bases, 19th century Each 46cm high. (4) £400-£600 112

305 An unusual set of graduated brass shoe horns, 19th century Largest 32cm. (6) £150-£250

306 OP A George I silver pear-shaped teapot of squat baluster form, by John Bache, London, 1723 The faceted spout with stylised eagle head terminal, domed cover with knop finial, wood handle, engraved baroque coat of arms with a chevron between three escallops argent on a ground vert, 16.5cm high, 13oz. (403gm.) ÂŁ4,000-ÂŁ4,500

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307 OP A Queen Anne silver tankard by Nathaniel Lock, London, 1711 Tapering sides and fluted Onslow scroll thumbpiece to domed cover, with applied decoration at top of handle below hinge, engraved with a coat of arms within foliate scrollwork mantling, handle inscribed ‘1712’ and terminating in a triangular escutcheon, 21cm high, 29.5oz. (914gm.) £4,500-£5,000

308 OP A good pair of Queen Anne silver dog nose or wavy end table spoons by Henry Greene, London, 1706 With rat-tail bowls and engraved with contemporary baroque coat of arms, 19.6cm long, approx. 4.5oz. (approx. 140gm.) £400-£600

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309 OP A Queen Anne silver footed salver or tazza by John East, London, 1705 Circular with gadroon border and conforming trumpet foot, centre engraved with contemporary coat of arms within foliate scroll mantling, 28cm diameter, 8cm high, 22oz. (682gm.) £4,000-£4,500

310 OP A pair of Queen Anne silver Hanoverian pattern threepronged table forks, by Paul de Lamerie (Grimwade, mark 1892), London, 1713 19cm long, approx. 5oz. (approx. 155gm.) £1,500-£2,000 thepedestal.com

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311 A Charles I oak joined stool, circa 1640 With channel-moulded top and friezes, on splayed baluster legs with original toes, 52cm wide, 27cm deep, 51cm high. £500-£1,000

312 A William and Mary oak and ash gate-leg table, circa 1690 With oval twin-flap top, plain friezes and baluster legs joined by square stretchers, 147cm wide, 127cm deep, 66.5cm high. £600-£800

313 A Charles II oak and upholstered open armchair, circa 1680 With baluster arm supports and turned legs with square stretchers, 66cm wide, 55cm deep, 110cm high, together with another similar but narrower armchair, 55cm wide, 55cm deep, 110cm high, modern upholstery. (2) £600-£1,000

314 A small William and Mary oak and elm three-drawer chest, circa 1690 With original turned feet and original handles, 64cm wide, 37cm deep, 63.5cm high. £400-£600

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315 OP An unusually tall George III oak and mahogany banded spoon rack and candle box, circa 1780 The box with slope lid, corner fan motifs and drawer below, 26cm wide, 19cm deep, 71cm high. £600-£800

317 OP A George III oak architectural hanging corner cupboard, circa 1770 The frieze with secret compartment, the door with ogee arched panel flanked by fluted uprights, fixed shelves within, 69cm wide, 37cm deep, 96cm high. £1,200-£1,500 thepedestal.com

316 A William and Mary oak slope-lid box, circa 1690 With rosette and punched border to sides, a lozenge to the front, Stamped CH, 32cm wide, 28cm deep, 20cm high, together with another small 17th century plain oak box, 31.5cm wide, 28cm deep, 12.5cm high. (2) £200-£400

318 A small oak-framed mirror, 18th century Together with various oak objects, including two sculpture niches 39cm and 48cm high; a pair of obelisks 39cm high; a pair of giltwood figures, 28cm high. (qty) £200-£300

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319 A William and Mary elm joined stool or small table, circa 1690 With channel-moulded friezes and slender baluster legs on original toes, 53cm wide, 34cm deep, 58cm high. £800-£1,200

320 Three William and Mary upholstered oak chairs, circa 1690 the highest 97cm. (3) £300-£500

321 OP A Charles I figured oak joined stool, circa 1640 The top with triple-mould edge and channelled friezes with scroll edge, on turned tapering legs joined by square stretchers, 50cm wide, 28.5cm deep, 53cm high. £800-£1,200

322 A small Queen Anne figured oak gate-leg table, circa 1710 With rectangular drop-flap top and slender baluster legs on original feet, 88cm wide, 73cm deep, 68cm high. £200-£400

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323 OP A William and Mary olivewood oyster veneered and crossbanded chest Inlaid with sycamore concentric circles, the rectangular moulded top above two short and two long graduated drawers, with book matched oyster veneers to the sides, above replaced moulding and bun feet, 102cm wide, 58cm deep, 79cm high. ÂŁ5,000-ÂŁ7,000 324 No lot

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325 A George III oak Estate cupboard, circa 1780 With dentil-moulded cornice and a pair of pointed ogee panel doors enclosing twelve drawers and five pigeonholes above a slide, two short and four long drawers, on bracket feet, 94cm wide, 47cm deep, 166cm high. £800-£1,200

326 A matched set of eight early Victorian spindle back chairs, Lancashire, circa 1850 Including two armchairs, all with rush seats, various combinations of ash, birch and elm. (8) £500-£1,000

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327 OP An 18th century oak longcase clock by Rich Stonehouse, Whitby with engraved dummy winding holes The rectangular hood with pierced swan-neck pediment and applied gilt-metal roundels above a glazed arched door, flanked by turned gilt-metal columns, the trunk with shaped arched door and square moulded base and shaped bracket feet, the 11 inch arched brass dial signed in the boss to the arch ‘Rich Stonehouse, Whitby’, over shell-cast spandrels in the Roman and Arabic chapter ring, the plain centre with engraved wheat-ear border framing the dummy winding squares and date sector, the weight driven plated movement with four knopped pillars, anchor escapement and outside countwheel strike on a bell, 46cm wide, 24cm deep, 218cm high. £800-£1,200

328 OP A French cherry wood farmhouse table, circa 1800 With a rectangular top and a drawer and slide to one end, the opposing end with a further drawer, on slightly inswept legs, 202cm wide, 82cm deep, 77cm high. £1,000-£1,500 thepedestal.com

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William H. Stokes at his desk 329 An unusual William and Mary oak high-back armchair, South Lancashire, circa 1690 The arms set low and with deep arched toprail and fielded panel, both tightly carved with stylised flowers, the rope seat above a wavy frieze stamped with initials MD, 56cm wide, 60cm deep, 121cm high £2,000-£3,000 Literature: C.K. Binns, Fine Furniture Sans Pedigree, Antique Collector, December 1970, p.278, Fig.11, credited to William Stokes.

330 A Charles II oak centre table or writing table, circa 1660 The rectangular top with plain moulded friezes and baluster legs joined by unusual curved stretchers, standing on original feet, 153cm wide, 77cm deep, 79.5cm high. £1,500-£2,500 122

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331 An English oak architectural fragment adapted for use as a table lamp, circa 1620 Modelled as a bearded Atlantes with guilloche carved support, on modern stepped damask plinth, 66cm high (77cm high including plinth). £700-£1,000

332 A William III oak box, initialled and dated IH 1698 With gouged edge decoration and incised border to the lid 33cm wide, 26cm deep,13cm high. £300-£500

333 A small Charles II oak stool, circa 1670 Upholstered in modern crimson damask with tassels, on baluster legs joined by stretchers, 39cm wide, 32cm deep, 40cm high. £400-£600

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338 HERITAGE – C. Latham, In English Homes, (3 Vols) Country Life 1909 and H. A. Tipping, English Homes, London 1926. (12) £200-£400 339 HERITAGE – C. Latham, In English Homes, (3 Vols) Country Life 1909, H. A. Tipping, English Homes, London 1926, (4 Vols), G.Jekyll & L.Weaver, Gardens for Small Country Houses, Country Life 1913. (8) £150-£250 340 FURNITURE – A selection of volumes including Dictionary of English Furniture, 1924 (3 Vols); Jourdain, English Decoration and Furniture, Vol I, London 1924; F. Roe, Ancient church chest and chairs and A History of Oak Furniture; Sheppard, Old Royal Palace of Whitehall, 1902., H. W. Lever & J. C Leal, The Church Chests of Essex, 1913. (qty) £80-£120

334 A Geneva breeches bible, 1605 Later leather-bound, quarto, Including Old and New Testament, the Apocrypha, two concordances and The Whole Booke of Psalmes, IMPRINTED AT LONDON by ROBERT BARKER, printer to the King’s most excellent majesty 1605, 17cm wide, 7cm deep, 22cm high. £200-£400 So called because of its translation of Genesis 3 verse 7 “they sowed figge tree leaves together and made themselves breeches” (referring to Adam and Eve). The King James version of 1611 has ‘aprons’.

335 HISTORICAL – A selection of bound volumes including, G. Lyttleton, The History of England, London 1803, (3 Vols), The Pictorial History of England, London 1855 (6 Vols), Ainsworth (ed.), All Round the World, an illustrated record, London 1873, Sir J. Dalrymple, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, 1788, second volume, T. Morell DD, Seneca’s Epistles, London 1786, Poems by Thomas Gray, 1905, Republica Veneta, 1631, T. Carlyle, The French Revolution, 1895. (qty) £200-£400 336 CHURCHES & ARCHITECTURE – A selection of books. (qty) £50-£100 337 HERITAGE – A selection of books on the English Country House and several volumes on individual houses. (qty) £80-£120

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341 FURNITURE – Furniture, Treen and Clock related books and magazines, including Antique Collector 1937 – 1950 (bound volumes); Kreizel, Die Kunst des Deutschen Mobels, (3 Vols); Pinto, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, 1970; Hackenbroch, Furniture in The Irwin Untermeyer Collection, 1958; Mentmore catalogue Vols 1-V, also a few volumes on textiles and Delft. (qty) £50-£100 342 FURNITURE – A selection of volumes including History of English Furniture, London 1938 (4 Vols); Jourdain, English Decoration and Furniture of the early Renaissance, London 1924; Cescinsky & Gribble, Early English Furniture and Woodwork, London 1922; Dictionary of English Furniture, 1954 (3 Vols); various volumes on Misericords. (qty) £100-£200 343 OP FURNITURE – P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, 1904-08, 4 vols, in red and gilt morocco Comprising of The Age of Oak, Walnut, Mahogany and Satinwood, Lawrence & Bullen, Ltd, 1904-1908. (4) 344 SCULPTURE, METALWARE, IVORIES, ALABASTERS, WEAPONS AND PAINTINGS – Various volumes. (qty) £50-£100

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345 A late 15th/early16th century book cover of crimson silk designed with two evangelists each holding a book, Italian, possibly Sicilian The surround with columns and flowers on curling stems, worked mainly in gold thread, mounted open and framed, 26cm x 38.50cm. £600-£800

346 A mid 17th Century silk tent stitch embroidered picture of the Annunciation, circa 1660, English To the left stands the Angel Gabriel and to the right kneels the Virgin Mary with a book on the desk in front of her, a vase of lilies to the fore, the upper border with the Holy Spirit on a cloud to the left of a landscape scene, 30cm x 40cm, framed and glazed. £150-£200

347 A 17th century cover of crimson velvet designed with a roundel of Saint Peter holding a book and key, probably Italian The surround with cherubim, a dragon and scrolls, the outer edge with curling stems and the whole with padded and raised gold thread, 46.50cm x 75cm, framed and glazed. £200-£300

348 An 18th century embroidered picture Of cream silk worked mainly with green, cream, blue and pink silks in satin stitch and applied gold thread, designed with a rose to the centre and a crown imperial to each end, the surround with curling leaves, 24cm x 51cm, framed and glazed, together with a runner of similar work with red velvet border, 180cm x 49cm, a cover of 18th Century sage green velvet with tassel fringe, 232cm x 52cm and a fragment of cisele velvet. (4) £300-£500

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349 A mid 20th century embroidered picture in the manner of Stuart raised work by Leonora Jenner, circa 1940, English The sage green silk ground designed with a lady and gentleman each beneath a gilt net canopy held by architectural columns, the border with a swan, monkey, owl, other birds and insects worked in silk and metal thread , the whole applied with sequins, glass, ceramic and pearl beads, the outer edge with gilt lace, with monogram L J, 35.50cm x 49cm, within a glazed silvered wood frame. £300-£500 Leonora Jenner was an embroideress who worked mainly during the 1930’s and 1940’s. She lived with her husband Colonel Jenner in Avebury Manor, Wiltshire and an example of her work is in the National Trust Collections.

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351 A 17th century tapestry panel of a pheasant perching at the base of a column covered in a climbing rose 59.50cm x 46cm, framed and glazed. £200-£250

352 A small framed needlework sampler, signed EM 1789 Depicting various animals and objects, with a tree flanked by initials WH and MA, 24cm x 14cm. £200-£400

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353 A 19th century Scottish banner of quartered design with a lion rampant and a chequered pattern Worked in crimson, pale blue and cream silks, the lower border with five pendants displaying a crown and swan to each end and ‘ENDURE’ with an ostrich with a key and ‘FORT’ to the centre, lined 203cm x 172cm. £300-£500 Note Likely to have an association with the Lindsay Clan, whose family motto is Endure Fort (Suffer bravely).

354 A 15th century Orphrey panel designed with three saints Depicting a man with a book and fleur de lys, Zenobus, a man with his hand in blessing and a purse hanging from his waist, Matthew, and one other holding a book, worked mainly with applied gold thread and later coloured thread embroidery, 138cm x 27cm, framed and glazed. £150-£200

355 An 18th Century naïve woolwork picture designed with farming scenes of the harvest Depicting figures gathering the corn, a man working with a scythe and a horse laden with wheat sheaves, the outer edge with trees and flowers, embroidered in cross and satin stitches, 81cm x 58cm, framed and glazed. £300-£500 128

356 A 19th century wall hanging Of crimson velvet designed with two rows of three niche patterns in cream brocade, the border of padded and quilted pale blue silk applied at intervals with stylised motifs, lined 280cm x 170cm. £400-£600

357 A Kayseri silk rug, Turkey, circa 1930 201cm x 138cm £300-£500

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358 A pair of 18th century woolwork seat covers Designed with a central rose surrounded by iris, tulip and crocus flowerheads, the outer edge with similar bold flowers worked in red, cream dark blue and green wools, 50cm x 62cm English. (2) £400-£600

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359 Three seat covers of woolwork designed with rose blooms Each 60cm x 65cm, another 56cm x 61cm and four panels, 33cm x 52cm of similar design and a length of woolwork, the centre with scrolling leaves, 125cm x 54cm, mainly 19th century. £150-£200

360 A group of four cushions of 17th century Flemish tapestries A pair and two single, the pair 38cm x 25cm, the single ones 41cm x 37cm and 63cm x 47cm respectively. (4)

361 A quantity of mats, table runners and borders Mainly with brocaded edge and lined, mostly of 17th century tapestry. (18)

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362 A 17th century tapestry panel Designed with a roundel of Vanity gazing into a hand held mirror and a mask to each side, woven in coloured wools, 60cm x 90cm and a tapestry sideborder designed with a bird, fruit and flowers having later cotton edge, each lined, Flemish. (2) £400-£500

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363 A 17th century border Of dark blue velvet having applied red cord and cream silk, with traces of metal thread, designed with curling and scrolling leafy stems, 26cm x 256cm, lined, Italian. £150-£250

(part lot) 364 A mid 19th century panel of linen Embroidered in yellow silk with running, applied and back stitches, designed with the Medici family crest, mermaids, unicorns and curling leafy stems, having later velvet border, lined, 35cm x 158cm and a 19th century border of applied linen on a Burato mesh ground, 19cm x 320cm, Italian. (2) £200-£300

365 (part lot) A 17th century Flemish tapestry border Woven in mainly yellow, green and blue wools, the centre designed with two seated angels, each blowing a trumpet, to the right is Pan holding a cornucopia, a sphinx sits to each end, the surround with flowers and leaves, 34cm x 304cm and another tapestry border designed with a pair of dolphins and birds amongst reeds, flowers and leaves, having braid edge, lined, 36cm x 188cm. (2) £250-£300 thepedestal.com

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366 An early 18th century frieze panel Of linen embroidered with coloured silks in laid and applied stitches, designed with a mask between parrots perched upon a meandering scrolling leaf, a display of fruit before the mask and a vase of mainly tulips and narcissi to each side, 72cm x 284cm, circa 1700, Italian. £800-£1,000

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367 An early 17th century chasuble front Designed with upright and curling flowers and leaves, the whole embroidered in green, yellow and blue silks on a cream ground, lined, 112cm long, the back of a dalmatic, 103cm long, two borders, each with a join, 17cm x 166cm and 20cm x 166cm, an upper back vestment 59cm long, a border with central ribbon motif and scrolling tulip stems, lined 30cm x 127cm and three fragments each of similar work and design, probably Italian. (qty) £500-£800

368 A 16th century Orphrey panel Designed with a roundel of St. Matthew holding a book and axe woven in blue and green silks and gold thread, 53cm x 22.50cm, another with the figure of a female saint, 50cm x 19.50cm, an embroidered Roundel of St. Peter, 14.50cm diam. and a 17th century red velvet Panel with cream and blue silk applique designed with a shield displaying symbols of Christ’s Passion amongst scrolling leaves, 18.50cm x 53cm, lined. (4) £200-£250

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369 Five table runners of red and cream brocaded silk Lined and a quantity of red and yellow silk and crimson velvet mats, runners and borders. (15)

370 A pair of cushions with 17th century tapestry fronts Designed with trees and leaves in shades of green and blue, 38cm x 52cm, having cream tassel edge, a length of tapestry designed with oak leaves 60cm x 118cm and two fragments. £200-£300

371 A set of four tasselled cushions of green appliqué, plus one similar in blue The green cushions 46cm x 35cm, the blue cushion 42cm x 40cm, plus three others. (8)

372 A group of miscellaneous textiles Including a 19th century style belt, a panel of appliqué, two pieces of modern wool work and various items of textiles. (qty)

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373 A cover of five 17th century panels Of woven green and undyed linen designed with shaped flowering stems and curled flowerheads surrounding a vase of flowers, 254cm x 228cm, Italian. £200-£300

374 An early 18th century Portuguese altar frontal of cream silk Applied and laid with shades of green and yellow silk designed with the sacred monogram ‘IHS’ to the centre and a curling flower spray to each side, 53cm x 212cm, lined, a 19th century English altar frontal of cream damask, lined, 53cm x 228cm, two Chasuble backs with metal thread work, lined and a red silk stole. (5) £200-£250

375 An early 18th century panel of linen Embroidered in flame stitch with cream, red, green and dark blue wools, 202cm x 107cm, overall, (now in two pieces), probably English. £300-£400

376 A group of various trimmings To include a set of seven crimson tassels, braid, fringing and cord. (qty)

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(part lot) 377 A lower part-border of a mid 18th century tapestry Designed with gardening implements, a set of bagpipes, a squirrel, a cock and hens, other birds and animals, vegetables, fruit and flowers and the upper part-border designed with birds, fruit, flowers, gardening implements and musical instruments in richly coloured wools, 312cm x 42cm and 272cm x 43cm respectively, and two fragments, probably Gobelin, French. (4) £1,500-£2,000

378 A late 19th century entre-fenêtre Of claret velvet, the pelmet border inserted with 18th century floral brocade of sea green, blue and yellow silk, having fringed and tasselled trim, the side panels with embroidered and fringed decoration, lined, 228cm x 220cm, French. £200-£300

379 A 17th century tapestry panel The centre designed with three angels, displays of fruit to each side woven in shades of blue, cream and green wools, lined, 46cm x 188cm, a tapestry border, 26cm x 132cm and two others each 146cm x 28cm. (4) £150-£200

380 A 17th century tapestry seat cover Woven in coloured wools and designed with a courting couple accompanied by a young man with a bird perched on his hand and a hound at his feet, a tower and buildings in the distance, the surround with trees, 44.50cm square and another designed with a courting couple and young man on horseback, 53.50cm x 43cm. (2) £600-£800

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381 A 17th century woolwork stool cover In the manner of Turkey work, designed with a lattice pattern enclosing blossoming and fruiting trees in red, green, dark blue and yellow wools, having a cream wool ground, 50cm x 67cm, English. ÂŁ600-ÂŁ800

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382 A pair of ochre velvet cushions with a tapestry centre panel 43cm x 49cm, and two Flemish tapestry panels designed with figures, columns, flowers and leaves, having gilt lace applique to the lower and upper borders, lined, 130cm x 43cm and 126cm x 38.50cm. (3) £200-£300

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383 A pair of cushion covers of 17th century Flemish tapestry Designed with a display of roses, having fringed edge, 46cm sq. a panel of two birds carrying a ‘golden’ egg, 50cm x 73cm, a seat cover designed with a hound, 35cm x 48cm and a cushion designed with tassels, 40cm x 38cm, each of tapestry.

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384 An early 17th century tapestry panel Of a goddess holding a cornucopia of coins and one of fruit representing good fortune and plenty, the word ‘LIBERALITAS’ surmounts her, woven in coloured wools, upper right with initials ‘IAN RA…’ lined, 66cm x 80cm, Flemish. £400-£600 Probably from the important Brussels workshop of Jan II Raes 1570 – (1640?)

385 A mid 18th century gros et petit point embroidered panel Designed with a roundel of a young woman and her maid servant in a garden, a carnation and leaves to each side, worked in coloured wools, 46cm x 96cm, French, and a Panel designed with exotic fruit and flowers, 65cm x 38cm. (2) £300-£400 (part lot) thepedestal.com

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(one of a pair) 386 A pair of 17th century tapestry side borders Woven in mainly green, blue and brown wools designed with a central scene of a shield showing a wooded landscape, displays of tulips, carnations, roses and narcissi, each end with a roundel of a vase of flowers, lined, 314cm x 32cm, Flemish. (2) £200-£400 138

(one of a pair) 387 An 18th century border Of crimson silk applied with beaten silver metal and silver thread, designed with scrolling leaves and an undulating stem, having an edging of velvet and added gilt lace trim and fringe, 19cm x 200cm. £150-£200

388 A pair of early 18th century panels Of crimson silk applied with gold and silver thread and cord in an ogival pattern of tendrils and stems, the centre with a basket of fruit, having a braid and velvet border, 115cm x 20.50cm and a border of similar work on red velvet, 21.50cm x 140cm, each lined, Italian. (2) £200-£250

389 A 17th century panel, Italian Of cream silk and red cisele velvet designed with bold scrolling leaves and exotic fruit, having a braid border, 254cm x 52cm. £150-£250

(part lot) 390 A cover of four panels of mid 17th century forest green silk Brocaded in gold and silver thread and designed with curled flowerheads within a scrolling stem, having gilt braid border, lined, 216cm x 196cm, Italian, a panel of sea green silk damask, 85cm x 64cm and one of 19th century crimson silk, 52cm x 76cm. (3) £200-£300

391 A pair of wool pile panels Worked in pale blue, light brown and cream with a design of Pan, a sphinx, a winged lion and scrolls, lined, 65cm x 21cm, a 19th century wool pile panel designed with flowers, 50cm x 64cm and another 29cm x 44cm. (4) £150-£200

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