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LOT 2457
Old Master Drawing of a Kneeling Boy, Italian School
CIRCA 17TH CENTURY A.D.
6 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. (2.16 grams, 16 x 15.5 cm).
Study of a kneeling boy, possibly the young St John the Baptist, in red chalk (sanguine) on laid paper; in the Bolognese and Roman academic tradition after the Carracci, comparable to studies from the circle of Carlo Cignani (1628–1719); watermark a bird on three mounts (trimount) within a circle, a mark recorded on 17th-century Italian papers, including drawings made in Rome; chain lines about 28 mm apart.
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Harwich, UK, collector.
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LOT 2457
Old Master Drawing of a Kneeling Boy, Italian School
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£200 (EUR 232; USD 270) +BP*
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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of Rolling Stones ’Voodoo Lounge Rooftop Portrait’ Press Photograph by Sante D'Orazio
New York, 1994 A.D.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £30
Silver gelatin black-and-white promotional press photograph of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, manufacturer's backprint ‘This Paper Manufactured by Kodak’, annotated on the back in blue ink "Rolling Stones (Musicians)" and "SN 11.12.94", consistent with a magazine or picture library archive; a period press print, distributed in 1994 during the Voodoo Lounge tour (1994–95); unsigned. 19 grams, 20.3×25.4 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Harwich, UK, collector. -
Post Medieval Bronze Plaque Collection
19th century A.D.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising: elliptical type with mythic scene of nude Venus offering a bowl to Hercules, with Cupid below and Mercury to the rear; discoid type with a camel beneath a tree and three satyrs helping Silnus to ride it, all in a landscape; white plaster cast with bust of a Roman Catholic churchman wearing a biretta. 402 grams total, 8.1-12.6 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman. -
Post Medieval Enamelled Gold Recusant 'Death’s-Head' Memento Mori Ring
England, late 16th–early 17th century A.D.Estimate: £3,500 - 4,500 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,750
With an octagonal bezel centred by a white enamel skull against a black enamel ground, the interior of the hoop engraved in italic script: 'OREMUS PRO FIDELIBUS DEFUNCTIS' for 'Let us pray for the faithful departed'. 3.43 grams, 19.44 mm overall, 16.81 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M, USA 6, Europe 12.46, Japan 12)
Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13509-263388.
The prayer for the faithful departed gives the ring its Catholic devotional character.
