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Williamson, Henry - various first editions published by MacDonald, with dust wrappers to include "The Innocent Moon", " The Power of the Dead", The Dark Lantern", " Love and the Loveless", "The Phoenix Generation", "The Innocent Moon", "A Test to Destruction", "How Dear is Life" etc. all dustwrappers good, "The Patriot's Progress" ills William Kermode, Geoffrey Bles reprinted May 1930, dust wrapper (1 box) (17)
Santa is set for the winter with his heavy beard, faux fur hat and coat, carrying his lantern and red robin in nest with holly decoration. Set on stand for stability. Issued: 20th centuryDimensions: 8"L x 6"W x 17"HManufacturer: Hollyhocks GiftsCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Age related wear.
A 19th Century Gilt Bronze Candlestick, converted to a table lamp, with tapering reeded support on three paw feet and a waited triform platform base, 29cm h excluding fittings; together with another 19th century gilt bronze table lamp also converted, and a hexagonal brass lantern ceiling light (3)
A 20th century brass lantern clock with eight day fusee movement, the silvered chapter ring with black Roman hour numerals and outer Arabic minutes framing an engraved centre, inscribed 'John Smith London', the case of typical mid-17th century style form with bell surmount, pierced scroll fret panels and hinged back door, the side panels engraved with scenes of Old Father Time and Death, on turned feet, height 37cm, with pendulum and winding key.
A 20th century brass lantern clock style mantel timepiece, height 24cm, together with a brass Torsion anniversary mantel timepiece by Badische Uhrenfabrik, with glass dome, height 28.5cm, and a similar anniversary timepiece by Kieninger & Obergfell, on an alabaster circular base with glass dome, height 27cm.
* Giffard (Henri, 1825-1882). Le Ballon de Mr. H. Giffard, 1878, cabinet card photograph, mounted on card, with outer ruled border and title in red, 16 x 10.75 cm, together with another carte-de-visite photograph of Giffard's Balloon by René Dagron, circa 1878, with photographers name and address printed in purple to verso, Photographie Dagron, 1, Rue d'Hauteville, 34 Boulevard, Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, Photographie Microscopique, 10.5 x 6.5 cm, plus four other early ballooning photographs, including a carte-de-visite portrait of Léon Gambetta, by Etienne Carjat & Cie. circa 1870, a large photograph of passengfers in a hot air balloon by J. Beau, Photographie Hippique et Vélocipedique, 51 Roue de Passy, Paris, 24 x 16 cm, a carte-de-visite photographic reproduction of the Crystal Palace by T. Wright, an amateur photograph of an American airship taking its first flight at Pittsburg in 1908, with original inscription in ink to verso 'Taken in Schenley Park on October 3, 1908, its first ascention in Pittsburg length 71 ft. dia. 8 ft. weight 500lbs, frame work made of (white pine) balloon (oiled silk) 32 coats of linseed oil motor (four cylinders) run by gasoline', 15 x 17.5 cm, a stereocard photograph, circa 1880s, titled in ink to verso Avenue des Cerises a Paris, the yellow card surround stamped E.L., plusTissandier (Gaston). Le Grande Ballon Captif a Vapeur de M. Henry Giffard, Cour des Tuileries - Paris, 1878, avec de nom breuses illustrations par M. Albert Tissandier, Paris: G. Masson, editeur, Juillet 1878, wood engraved illustrations, some spotting, original pale green printed wrappers, with glassine overwrapper, a little frayed, 8vo, and a 1909 glass lantern slide of the Clément-Bayard Dirigible, entitled Take me up DearyQTY: (9)NOTE:Henri Giffard also ordered the Legion d'Honneur in 1863 for his work on steam engines, but he is best known as the inventor of the Ballon Captif a Vapeur, or hot air balloon that was exhibited during the 1878 Paris Exposition, during which passengers could experience a panorama of Paris seen from the basket, 'a panorama of Paris, seen from the basket of the large Captif Steam balloon in the courtyard of the Tuileries'. The balloon ascended to heights of 500 or 600 metres. Twelve ascents took place each day, which each ascent taking up to forty passengers.The photographic portrait of Léon Gambetta was probably published around 1870, following the Minister for Home Affairs escape from the Siege of Paris in 1870 by Balloon, becoming a French national hero as a consequence.
NO RESERVEA LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL-SECTION LANTERN 20TH CENTURY Raised on a plinth with a single drawer, painted with panels containing figures, phoenix, cranes, dragons and landscapes, with a horizontal Xuande mark, 46cm. (3) PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE. 注:本拍品不設底價。 Provenance: Henry Lawrence (1925-2016) and thence by descent.
NO RESERVEA CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE SOFT PASTE LANTERN VASE QIANLONG 1736-95 Painted with shaped panels depicting ladies and boys in garden settings, reserved on a blue ground with moulded and gilt butterflies and flowers, 28.5cm. PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE. 注:本拍品不設底價。
* Offenbach (Jacques, 1819-1880). French composer. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Jacques Offenbach', Theatre des Bouffes-Parisiens letterhead, 1 August, no year, c. 1860, to Gustave Bock, in German and French, concerning musical matters including the singer Clara Schüler, a little creasing and short split at foot of centrefold, 2 pp. with integral blank, 8vo, together with 2 signed receipts, 'Jacques Offenbach', the first for royalties of 3 operettas, Orpheus in the Underworld, A Marriage by Lantern-Light and Pepito, dated at Berlin, 12 March 1859, 1 page, 8vo, the second for royalties for Fortunio and Ba-ta-clan, dated at Berlin 22 January 1861, 1 page, narrow oblong folio, together with a pair of manuscript agreements signed, 'Jacques Offenbach', Paris, 24 March 1866 & 16 February 1867, the first an agreement between Offenbach and the German publishers Bote & Bock of Berlin, for the sale of the German rights in 'Barbe bleue' (Bluebeard), 'Coscoletto' and 'Les Bergers', the second for the German performance rights for 'La Grand-Duchesse de Gerolstein', some red pencil underscoring, duty stamps to left margins, both signed by both parties at foot of agreement, a little soiling and age wear and paperclip mark to upper left corner of each agreement not affecting text or signatures, each 2 pp., large 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Offenbach was amorously involved with the singer Clara Schüler and his Schüler-Polka, 1860, was dedicated to her.
A JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE CHAWAN BY OGATA SHUHEI (1788-1839)EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY The U-shaped bowl raised on a short square foot with a cream crackled glaze, the well painted with a lantern suspending from a pine tree, the exterior with figures and calligraphy, depicting a scene from the Kabuki play Chushingura; the base with a faint two-character signature, 14.5cm. Provenance: from an English private collection, London.Cf. S Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, pl.115A for a closely related bowl by Ogata Shuhei with similar decoration, formerly in the W W Winkworth Collection. Also see the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Collection of Sir William Van Horne, access. no.1944.Ee.20 for another similar bowl purchased from Yamanaka in 1899.The scene depicted takes place in a tea house in Kyoto, where Oishi Kuranosuke (the leader of the Forty-Seven Rōnin) pretends to indulge in debauchery in order to deceive his enemies, whilst plotting the revenge of his late master.
A large ship's copper masthead lamp with plaque affixed marked "Seahorse GB Trade Mark 67159", with removable red coloured insert, measuring approx. 36cm in height; together with a smaller starboard lantern and hanging brass lamp marked Patt. 16042 to base (3) Condition Report:Available upon request
NO RESERVEFOUR JAPANESE KAKEJIKU (HANGING SCROLL PAINTINGS) MEIJI AND LATER, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY The first with monkeys sitting on a rocky outcrop, signed Kakushu and sealed Sanjurokurin ('Thirty-six Scales of a Fish'); another with many gibbons frolicking on a branch, signed Shurei; the third painting depicting a beauty by a lantern wearing a colourful kimono, signed Koho, possibly for Hattoti Koho or Mizuno Koho (both active c.1890-1900); and the fourth a landscape painting, with buildings by a river and mountains beyond, possibly inscribed Koji; three with boxes, 122cm x 41.8cm max. (7) PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.
UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)BEAUTY AND LANTERNEDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY A Japanese woodblock print from the series Mitate Chōchingura (Parody of the Chushingura in Lanterns), depicting a seated girl tuning a shamisen below a poem, a lantern upper right decorated with the virtuous merchant Amakawaya Gihei seated on his armour box; signed Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga, published by Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyūdō) c.1847-48, with publisher's seal and two censors' seals; framed and glazed, oban tate-e, 35.5cm x 24.5cm.See the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, access. no.A.1887.745.46.2.90 for another example of this print.
A Chinese red silk chair cover, Qing dynasty, 19th century, embroidered with nine deer below a pine tree with twin cranes, the seat panel with twined facing dragons and the lower panel a rocky outcrop with floral motifs, 168cm x 53cm and a Chinese red silk chair cover, Qing dynasty, 19th century, in blue and white embroidery, the main panel with a lantern suspended with pearl pendants, the seat with floral design, the lower panel with flowering tree, 166cm x 51cm (2)Provenance: By Family descentMme Marie Violet who was a private collector circa 1890-1915晚清 紅地掛屏一對拍品來源:瑪麗·維奧萊特 (Marie Violet) 女士家族傳承,入藏於1890 年至 1915 年間 Condition Report: the nine deer panel with some staining throughout the lantern panel with some staining throughout Condition Report Disclaimer
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