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LOT 2449
Group of After the Antique Stone Intaglios
20TH CENTURY A.D.
3/8 - 3/4 in. (6.84 grams total, 9-18 mm).
Comprising an octagonal with a lion passant regardant, a rectangular with a face in profile, an oval with a standing archer, four oval with male bust in profile, a rectangular with a crowned male bust. [8, No Reserve]
ProvenanceLondon, UK, collection, 1990s.
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LOT 2449
Group of After the Antique Stone Intaglios
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Victorian Photo Album Book
19th-20th century A.D.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
With a leather spine and lacquered covers with leaf motifs and a brass clasp, inside with recessed cardboard mounts. 478 grams, 14.7 x 12.5 cm
Private collection, London, UK. -
Antique Maps of Brecknockshire and China
18th-19th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising: Owen, John and Bowen, Emanuel, Brecknockshire, from Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd, plate 163, from an 18th-century issue (first published 1720), an engraved county map with the road strip and a descriptive text panel, Rococo cartouche with putti, urns and a shell, hand-coloured, on the back is plate 164, the road from Chester to Llanfyllin, with a description of Chester and the Arms of Chester, inscribed in pencil 'Emanuel Bowen 1720-the 1735 issue' and 'From the Castle Grant Library' (Castle Grant, Morayshire, the seat of the Grants of Grant, Earls of Seafield); Souter, J., China, inscribed to the lower edge: 'London, Published Octr. 20th 1801 by J. Souter, 1 St. Pauls Ch. Yard', copperplate engraving with hand-coloured outlines, showing the provinces, the Great Wall, the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, Formosa and Hainan, centre fold. 16 grams total, 19.6 x 14 - 25.5 x 23.5 cm
Condition: Aged toning; small loss to the upper-right corner of the Brecknockshire sheet; the China map has a centre fold and some handling creases.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Harwich, UK, collector. -
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Stuart Period Gold and Enamel Ring with Citrine-Coloured Table-Cut Paste
England, mid-17th century A.D.Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £750
Set with a vivid orange-yellow table-cut paste in a raised octagonal collet, turquoise-coloured enamel decorating the bezel; the hoop chased with diagonal ornament, with remains of light-blue enamel. 2.58 grams, 22.63 mm overall, 17.40 x 15.66 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13)
Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection.
The projecting collet and table-cut paste belong to the seventeenth-century tradition of enamelled gemstone and imitation gem rings.
