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LOT 1983
Tudor Period Silver-Gilt Dress Fastener
16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (9.9 grams, 30 mm).
Comprising trefoil domes adorned with filigree flowers and roundels, central bulb surrounded by 'petals', hook to reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
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LOT 1983
Tudor Period Silver-Gilt Dress Fastener
Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)
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Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace
20th century A.D. or earlierSold for (Inc. bp): £20
Composed of chamfered coin-shaped beads together with annular beads, interspersed with gold-coloured spacer beads. 33.9 grams, 65 cm long
Ex W.J. collection, 1990s. -
Embroidery Sampler
Dated 1834 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Framed and glazed; embroidered by Phoebe Chisholm aged 12 years 1834. 1.7 kg, 49 x 40 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. East Anglian private collection.
The verse is quoted from the poem 'The Growing Boy'. -
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Egyptian Temple of Abu Simbel by J. W. Cox
Dated 1932 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Signed in the bottom right corner of the watercolour; framed and glazed with loops for suspension to the reverse. 1.65 kgs, 40.4 cm
Ex Albert Ward collection, Essex, UK.
J.W.S. Cox (1911-1982) was an American watercolourist renowned for developing the wet-on-wet painting technique. He grew up in New York, where he avidly sketched landscapes from an early age. The artist graduated from Pratt Institute NYC in 1933 and worked various jobs through the Great Depression. In 1936, he studied at the Acadamie Colarossie in Paris, and with Fauvist Othon Friesz for a short time, although later dismissed the Fauvist style as 'sloppy'. He went on to teach watercolour painting to students at Boston University, founding a studio on Bearskin Neck, Rockport, where he developed his 'sponge painting' and palette-knife techniques. He painted with an individualistic style, becoming a member of the Boston Watercolour Society. Cox shunned publicity as he believed it robbed him of painting time and turned down membership to the National Academy because he 'wouldn't play the game'. A Renaissance man, Cox spoke 12 languages with a goal to present himself 'and the soul of nature as truthfully and with as much inspiration, vitality and freshness as is possible, through the medium of watercolour'. He died of a heart attack in Florida in 1982.
