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LOT 2073
Elizabethan Period Ceramic Fire Brick Group
CIRCA 16TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/4 - 5 5/8 in. (6.25 kg total, 13.2 -14.2 cm).
Each differently sized and displaying a design in relief, including figural scenes, shields flanking a candlestick, scrolling foliage and facing busts within cartouches with elaborate borders. [4]
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
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LOT 2073
Elizabethan Period Ceramic Fire Brick Group
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
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Jacobean and Cromwellian Period Glazed Ceramic Miniature Fire Guards
Dated 1605 and 1654 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Each with bell-shaped socket and strap handle; one with white applied decoration including the sun with mask and two flowers with a date of 1605; the other a fragment with reconstituted elements, orange in colour with yellow slashes, star, rosette and partial date '[..]54' for 1654; one restored. 443 grams total, 15-17 cm
Fine condition, one restored.
Acquired in the 1990s. Ex property of a Suffolk collector.
1605 was the year of the 'Gunpowder Plot', a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament which was foiled when, following an anonymous tip-off, Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, found Catholic plotter Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and ordered a search of the area, finding thirty six barrels of gunpowder. Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day. Fawkes spoke the legendary words: 'Remember, remember, the Fifth of November'. In 1654 Oliver Cromwell created a union between England and Scotland, with Scottish representation in the Parliament of England. -
Post Medieval Dutch Ceramic Tile with Stag
Circa 18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Decorated with polychrome glaze, the animal standing left in a lozenge with borders; displayed in a wooden frame. 530 grams, 19 x 19 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection. -
Painted Stone Bust of Queen Nefertiti
20th century A.D.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Carved in the round with semi-naturalistic features, wearing the iconic 'Nefertiti cap crown' adorned with a golden diadem band, ornamental beaded collar around her neck and shoulders; remains of gilding and polychrome painted pigment; limestone. 28.2 kg, 51 cm high
Ex French gallery, Paris.
Closely modelled on the original held in Neues Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, created c.1340 B.C.
