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LOT 0386
Baroque Gold and Silver Diamond and Emerald Ring
SPAIN, LATE 17TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (4.79 grams, 22.25 mm overall, 15.89 x 14.78 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I 1/2, USA 4 1/2, Europe 8.07, Japan 7)).
Comprising a silver cluster bezel centred by an emerald cabochon and surrounded by diamonds, the reverse of the bezel enamelled with white and black enamel, and the setting resting on an engraved gold hoop with remains of black enamel.
ProvenanceAcquired on the European art market.
UK, private collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Luis Koch Collection, Part I, 1994, pp.284-285, items 944, 947, for similar.
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LOT 0386
Baroque Gold and Silver Diamond and Emerald Ring
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000€1,740 - 2,320 (for guidance only)$2,030 - 2,700 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£750 (EUR 870; USD 1,013) +BP*
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Post Medieval Iron Door Key Collection
Late 19th-20th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Large group of keys for doors, drawers and caskets, each with a loop handle. 594 grams total, 4-12 cm
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Western Asiatic Style Bronze and Silver Utensil Group
20th century A.D.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising: a single-edged knife with a ring handle; a copper-alloy spoon, with partially silvered handle marked AmeΛbku; a substantial bronze ladle with segmented handle, bulbous bowl with pouring lip and body decorated by lozenges, finial of a sitting male with arms folded across the knees, trapezoidal panel to the rear with suspension ring. 346 grams total, 23.5-34 cm
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1960s. From the private collection of Mr J.P.H., a Woolwich, UK, collector, his collection formed since the 1960s. -
Two Georgian Political Caricatures by James Sayers
1788 A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £25
Comprising: 'The Shadow of Opposition' etching, published 31 March 1788 by Thomas Cornell, monogrammed in the plate 'JS f', a satire on the Foxite Opposition, with the motto 'Stat Magni Nominis Umbra' and the verses 'Each Patriots Speech another Speech affords / The C—ns have their Echo in the L—ds'; 'The Managers in Distress, etching, published 11 April 1788 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street, monogrammed in the plate 'JS f' a satire on Burke, Fox and the other managers of the Warren Hastings impeachment, shown falling from a collapsing bridge: 'D—n the Piers they won't support us', punning on the House of Lords 'Peers'; both mounted. 282 grams total, 32.5 x 32 - 35 x 30 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Harwich, UK, collector.
Sayers was one of the leading political caricaturists of the 1780s, a supporter of Pitt, and best known for his attacks on Fox and the Hastings prosecution. Both prints were published by Thomas Cornell, Sayers's regular publisher, within a fortnight of each other during the early months of the Hastings trial.
