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Lot No. 2042
1
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Including standing figures with arms outstretched, hollow-formed perching bird and other types. 2.06 kg total, 9.7-19 cm including stand

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Lot No. 2043
2
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Carved in the round with hands resting on the hips and legs spread. 3.15 kg, 28 cm

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Comprising casket keys and barrel-type keys, tailors' thimbles and other items. 207 grams total, 19.7 x 9.7 cm including case

Ex Stocker collection, Kent, UK, 1955-early 2000s.

Comprising four bricks with raised designs: scrolling vegetation; two monograms, one a merchant's mark, in roundels divided by an object with tiered base and billeted border; male and female facing busts within dot-dash border; worn crowned shield issuing flowering vegetation. 6.4 kg total, 13-14 cm

Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.

Cf. similar specimen in the British Museum, inventory no.OA.9377.

These glazed stove or floor tiles are similar to the ones of the great hall and the Tudor kitchens at Hampton Court Palace, made of ceramic, with a glaze to make it hard-wearing and washable. Not just the furnishings, but the palaces themselves were multi-coloured, with brick walls painted red, and exposed timbers in yellow, red, green and white
Lot No. 2046
1
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Bulbous in profile with four stub legs and broad flared mouth, applied detailing of an elephant's head with extended trunk and vents to the ears, lateral saddle detailing forming the handles, looped tail. 597 grams, 12.6 cm

From a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.

Lot No. 2047
 
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Including carved face with inset annular eyes. 1.41 kg total, 8.5-13.8 cm

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Flat-section hoop with incised design including cross in vesica, Calvary with cross, nimbate figure; legend in blackletter miniscule with vertical superscript slashes 'ET VERBUM CARO FACTUM EST ET HAVITAVIT IN NOBIS ('And The Word Was Made Flesh, And Dwelt Among Us'). 9.55 grams, 20.34 mm overall, 17.06 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13)

Private collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1980s.

With flared body and domed shoulder, narrow neck with gussetted rim, old collector's inventory label to underside '7'; rim chipped. 1.08 kg, 24.2 cm

Salvaged by Ruben Collado Amatriain in 1992.

Accompanied by original signed declarations in both English and Spanish from Ms Mariana Faine Collado, daughter of Mr Ruben Collado Amatriain.

Exhibited at the museum 'Museo de los Naufragios y Tesoros' in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from 2003-2004 and then in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay until 2005.

Lot No. 2050
2
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Mainly ellipsoid in plan, many with intaglio animal motifs, profile busts and others; after the antique. 64 grams total, 13-25 mm

From a central London ADA dealership, 1980-1990.

Comprising a graduated series of restrung coin-shaped beads with modern fasteners. 107 grams total, 43 cm long

UK gallery, early 2000s.

Lot No. 2052
8
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Composed of small oblate beads, restrung. 5.94 grams, 40.8 cm

Ex London art market.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

Comprising a four-pronged table fork and a spoon with ovoid bowl. 71 grams total, 16.5-17 cm

Salvaged by Ruben Collado Amatriain in 1992.

Accompanied by original signed declarations in both English and Spanish from Ms Mariana Faine Collado, daughter of Mr Ruben Collado Amatriain.

Exhibited at the museum 'Museo de los Naufragios y Tesoros' in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from 2003-2004 and then in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay until 2005.

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