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LOT 1763
Elizabethan Elaborate Carved Wood Panel with Putti and Mythical Beasts
16TH-17TH CENTURY A.D.
18 3/4 in. (841 grams, 47.5 cm).
Rectangular section of panel frame with egg-and-dart upper band, main panel with frieze comprising: scrolled frond with squirrel holding a nut in his raised forepaws; wolf in rampant pose climbing on fronds, head turned backwards towards a hound with its forepaws clawing at the wolf's rump, head raised, restrained by a leash gripped by a putto sounding a blasthorn and with a huntsman's pouch slung over his shoulder; domed panel with lobed fronds and round keyhole; addorsed putto with pouch slung across his body; mounting rings and wire to the reverse, recess for mounting a lock mechanism and an old inventory label. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, London, UK.
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LOT 1763
Elizabethan Elaborate Carved Wood Panel with Putti and Mythical Beasts
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
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Ethiopian Diptych Icon of the Virgin and Child with Angels and Saint George
Circa 1500 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Carved rectangular diptych with braided thread hinges; left inner panel a painted scene of the St. George on horseback wielding a spear with Ge'ez script text above; right panel with nimbate Virgin Mary, Infant Jesus and flanking angels. 57 grams, 88 x 80 mm
Acquired from Trotzky & Sanders, New York, 2004. Ex central London gallery. -
Post Medieval Bone China Portrait of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
20th century A.D.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £110
Painted onto bone china in polychrome and gilt, showing the ruler facing, dressed in royal attire. 27 grams total, 64 mm high (82 x 82 mm including box)
Acquired by the vendor's father on the UK art market, before 1990.
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar was the fourth Shah of Qajar, and the third longest reigning ruler in Iranian history. He was assassinated in Tehran on 1st May 1896. He is known for being the first modern Persian monarch to have formally visited Europe and to have written about his travels in his memoirs. -
Ethiopian Manuscript Page for Miracle of the Virgin Mary
Circa 1680 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
Vellum leaf with pricked guidelines for placement of two columns of red-ink and black-ink text in Ge'ez script with red detailing; recto with two columns of text above a polychrome painted miniature showing a nimbate Mary beside a recumbent bearded figure among buildings with a winged angel above; verso with twenty-two lines of text in two columns. 89 grams, 35.5 x 30 cm
Previously in the David Buxton collection (1910-2003), until the late 1990s.
The scene should represent the miracle of the Virgin Mary to Damianus the scribe: Damianus wrote the name of the Virgin Mary with gold and silver instead of with common black ink. The Virgin Mary appeared to Damianus on his death bed and promises to write his name upon a pillar of gold in the Kingdom of Heaven.
