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LOT 2137
Pair of Pastel Paintings of Children on a Beach by Sue McDough
CIRCA 1999 A.D.
18 1/8 x 21 1/4 - 18 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (4.65 kg total, 46 x 54 - 47 x 54.5 cm).
Comprising: a pastel of a young girl dressed in a green dress, playing with sand, her bare feet sinking in the sand, and shallow waves lapping in the background; the other pastel showing a young boy dressed in blue and holding a ball in his hands, gazing into the distance where a group of people are playing in the water; both set in glazed frames and signed to the bottom right-hand corner. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of an Essex, UK, lady.
Accompanied by two original receipts from Frinton Gallery.
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LOT 2137
Pair of Pastel Paintings of Children on a Beach by Sue McDough
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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Post Classical Gemstone with Magical Inscription
18th-19th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Oval variegated dark green intaglio featuring goddess Hekate represented triple-bodied and holding whips and branches, each head wearing a modius, inscription below and seven stars surrounding; the reverse with a magical inscription above a crescent moon and three stars. 7.92 grams, 34 mm
Acquired on the European art market.
Hekate was the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy. She received her power over heaven, earth, and sea from her parents, the Titans Perses and Asteria. -
Post Medieval Agate Cameo of Bishop Karl Theodor Anton Maria Von Dalberg
Germany, 19th century A.D.Estimate: £350 - 450 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £175
Ellipsoid with reserved profile of Karl Theodor Anton Maria Von Dalberg facing left, attributed to Johann Martin Bückle (1742-1811). 3.52 grams, 25 mm
Private collection, Europe. Acquired on the English art market.
Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (February 8, 1744 - February 10, 1817) was a Catholic German bishop and statesman. Throughout his career, he held various significant positions, including Prince-Archbishop of Regensburg, Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, Bishop of Constance and Worms, Prince-Primate of the Confederation of the Rhine, and Grand Duke of Frankfurt. -
Enamelled Gold Cross Pendant with Instruments of Passion
Germany, 17th century A.D.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,000
A finely executed devotional pendant in the form of a Latin cross, worked in high-carat gold and elaborately decorated on both sides; the obverse set with twelve table-cut almandine garnets, each enclosed within raised rub-over collets and inset with finely painted polychrome enamel scene depicting symbols of the Arma Christi, the Instruments of the Passion, including the scourge, hammer and pincers, the column of flagellation, rooster, dice, crown of thorns, and other emblematic motifs; the upper terminal with black enamel and bearing a gilt inscription 'INRI', an abbreviation of 'Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum' for 'Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews'; the reverse with guilloché enamel in translucent green and opaque white, forming a cross with stylised foliate terminals; the pendant retaining its original integral suspension loop; some restoration on the enamel. 4.06 grams, 43 mm
Acquired on the European art market. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13403-257997.
This pendant typifies early 17th-century German devotional jewellery, in which vivid enamelwork and miniature Passion iconography converge in portable, contemplative forms of piety.
