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LOT 0397
Indo-Portuguese Painted Wooden Box
GUJARAT, LATE 17TH-EARLY 18TH CENTURY A.D.
15 3/4 in. (2.2 kg, 40 cm).
Featuring iron strap hinges, nails and clasp, polychrome painted motifs to each face displaying scrolling tendrils, geometric ornament and pairs of animals in formal garden settings; to the front face, two figures armed with swords facing each other, small animals bounding around their heels. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith Setdart Subastas, 28 September 2022, lot 35276208.
Ex central London gallery.
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Neoclassical Sardonyx Cameo of Alexander the Great in Silver Ring
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With profile bust reserved in high-relief, set into the bezel of a silver finger ring. 11.22 grams, 32.35 mm overall, 20.09 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T 1/2, USA 9 3/4, Europe 21.89, Japan 21)
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Jacobean and Cromwellian Period Glazed Ceramic Miniature Fire Guards
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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.
