Bellmans
Bellmans is an auction house operating from salerooms in Winchester, Hampshire and Wisborough Green, West Sussex. Managing director Jonathan Pratt holds valuation events in both the local areas as well as from an office in central London.
Bellmans hold regular antiques and interiors auctions offering items including silver, jewellery, Oriental works of art, furniture and garden statuary.
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Italian sculptures stand out in summer
22 July 2019Italian sculptors were the hottest property as garden statuary flourished at summer sales in the Home Counties.
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Cohray’s handmade modernism
24 June 2019In the 1950s French designer Raymond Cohen and his firm Cohray were producing a range of ultra-modern furniture that – although made for the machine age – were all put together by hand.
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CLOCKS: Quare and Tompion – Rivals who clicked in London's Golden Age
10 June 2019Golden Age collaboration between two London clockmakers leads a look at the market including hammer highlights, auction previews and dealer news.
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Eardley Norton clocks chime with bidders
10 June 2019Eardley Norton, who is listed at 49 St John’s Street, Clerkenwell between 1762- 94, enjoyed a reputation as a skilled mechanic and the maker of complex timepieces, sometimes with musical and astronomical movements.
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Your carriage clock awaits at regional auctions
10 June 2019The series of Victorian carriage clocks by James McCabe – the son of a Belfast clockmaker of the same name who came to London in the 1770s and worked at the Royal Exchange from 1804 – are typically beautifully made with exemplary twin fusee striking movements.
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Singapore merchant's portrait is centre of attention at West Sussex auction
03 June 2019This pastel portrait of a Singaporean merchant by Percy Carpenter (1820-95) is believed to have broken a 30-year auction record for the artist.
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Bellmans party marks 30 years in the business
20 May 2019In any ‘top 10’ list of 30th birthday party themes, a 1980s or ‘90s leitmotif ranks high.
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Collection of ‘London’s best-connected man’ Sir David Tang come to auction in Sussex
11 May 2019Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and socialite Sir David Tang, who died in August 2017, was a luxury goods entrepreneur who mixed with the rich and famous and counted members of the royal family as his friends.
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Bellmans offer 18th century Canton plaque in West Sussex
06 May 2019The May 14-16 Interiors series at Bellmans of Wisborough Green, West Sussex, features a substantial Asian section.
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Seago trio takes £44,000 at Sussex auction
29 April 2019Three oils by the popular East Anglian artist Edward Seago (1910-74) sold for £44,000 hammer at Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium) in a mammoth four-day sale held at its Sussex saleroom.
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Taking a view beyond the £90,000 London panorama
29 April 2019A very rare panorama of London that made £90,000 in a recent West Sussex sale was the Pick of the week in ATG No 2387, but many other things among the 200 lots offered in that April 5 auction caught the eye.
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Continental silver becomes a growing presence in the provinces
29 April 2019Underpinned by bids from the internet, silver from beyond the British Isles is these days a stronger feature of provincial sales.
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Pick of the week: Fierce bidding at Bellmans for panoramic view of London showing the city reimagined after the 1666 Great Fire
15 April 2019A very rare panorama of 17th century London depicting the city skyline in the wake of the Great Fire of 1666 has sold at auction for £90,000.
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Elizabethan beaker is rare survivor of war meltdown
11 March 2019Silver across five centuries caught the eye at provincial sales in February.
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Chinese goddess figure by celebrated Ming potter smashes estimate at West Sussex auction
06 March 2019A Dehua blanc de chine figure of Guanyin sold for a surprise £39,000 – some 130 times the top estimate - at Bellmans in Wisborough Green, West Sussex last month.
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Auction houses launch new sales categories across the regions
27 February 2019Bloomsbury, Bellmans and McTear’s among firms with new sales scheduled.
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Affordable art: Three works priced under £1700 in regional auctions including a Francis Cyril Rose self-portrait
25 February 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £1700, including a a Francis Cyril Rose self-portrait.
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Interior designer’s taste fuels white-glove auction
25 February 2019A very different residence to Harold Ward’s Manthorpe House (see Mellors & Kirk story in Auction Reports this edition) supplied the very different contents to the 600-lot single-owner collection, white-glove sale held at Bellmans’ (22% buyer’s premium) Billingshurst saleroom on February 9.
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Seven fabulous fans going under the hammer this month
11 February 2019With many fans going under the hammer in the coming weeks it is an ideal time to get more familiar with this market where examples can range in price from a few pounds to the high five figures.
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Five lots to watch at auction this week including an Art Nouveau cabinet and a novelty silver pencil by Tiffany
21 January 2019With estimates from £250 to £12,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
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