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LOT 1849
Post Medieval Wooden Carving of a Walking Gentleman
CIRCA 19TH CENTURY A.D.
18 1/2 in. (1.76 kg, 47 cm high).
Dressed in a peaked cap, smock, ankle-length trousers and clogs, standing holding a churchwarden smoking pipe to his mouth with his left hand and with his right hand leaning on a stout walking stick; coopered pannier to his back with contents partly protruding at the top, small basket beside his right foot, octagonal base with recess to the underside; probable Dutch workmanship. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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LOT 1849
Post Medieval Wooden Carving of a Walking Gentleman
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
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Framed Watercolour Painting
India, 20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Showing figures in an architectural setting, water and landscape beyond; possibly two female attendants, one holding a torch, the other keeping guard, assisting their mistress who has ventured out at dusk to meet her lover; set in a reveal within a glazed wooden frame. 528 grams, 32.5 x 23.5 cm
Very fine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art. -
Ethiopian Diptych with St George and the Dragon
17th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
Comprising two square panels bound together, painted cross motifs to the outside; left hand panels showing a polychrome scene of St George (Bet Gorgis) slaying the dragon and thus saving the princess shown on the left; the right panel showing winged St Tekle Haymanot in orans pose, right leg with a wooden prosthetic and the severed foot show on the ground, standing behind a bearded Saint (Saint Samuel of Waldebba?) in similar pose, wearing a flounced skirt with panther and lion heads, dove to the upper right hand corner. 426 grams, 21 x 21.5 cm
Ex Alistair McAlpine collection, 2004. Ex central London gallery.
According to Leroy, one of the first scholars who extensively studied Ethiopian paintings, the development in Ethiopian art from the middle of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th century followed only one style which emerged as the Gondarene style, named after the capital of the Ethiopian Kingdom, Gondar. Saint George is spearing the dragon with a cross-spear, of which 17th century originals are still visible in the Lalibela Museum. The anatomy of the horse recalls 17th century style, but the horse trappings with the second collar and the high cantle of the saddle are already visible in 15th century icons. -
Elizabethan Carved Geometric Wood Panel Pair
16th-17th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Each formed as a curved panel for a door jamb or similar, with rectangular recess and reserved edging to complex geometric inner segments; three main panels carved as rectangular and ellipsoid sockets with inset fillers (one absent); two fixing holes close to one edge. 2.5 kg total, 49 cm each
Private collection, London, UK.
