Chiswick Auctions

Highlights of Chiswick Auctions earlier this summer

British watercolours and drawings amassed by dealer came under the spotlight at two salerooms

The Fry collection sold at Chiswick Auctions in London was reminiscent of the kind of auctions the dealer himself would attend

One of the most-represented names in the Fry collection was William Henry Hunt (1790-1864).

Pre-1950s Mary Fedden works are stylistically different to her later still-lifes and coastal subjects

As recently as a decade ago relatively little attention was paid to Iraqi niello silver.

The star of a recent Chiswick Auctions’ (25/12% buyer’s premium) Jewellery auction was an Art Deco diamond and rock crystal Cartier brooch, c.1925.

The collection of about 800 engraved gems formed by the nobleman and politician George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (1739-1817), was the largest and most important of the age.

Range of Sèvres highlights from ancien regime to the empire periods sold in UK auctions

Shown here are two highlights from sales of Islamic & Indian art held by London salerooms recently.

Chiswick Auctions conducts two sales on June 1-2: the usual Asian Art sale, plus a themed sale called Chinese Art: 100 Stories.

The familiar red-lettered, yellow-cloth covers of an 1897 first of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, though now somewhat soiled, prompted a far higher than predicted bid of $21,000 (£15,150) to lead a Chicago auction of March 19 – a sum bettered only by a handful of inscribed copies.

Ground level views of Ceylon offered in same sale as uplifting account of balloon voyages.

The name ‘peg tankard’ comes from the vertical row of pegs inside that can be used to measure the amount of alcohol drunk as it was passed around a table.

More Mod Brit delights from the Freer collection kept in a house full to bursting point

A large group of works from the collection of Allen and Beryl Freer has been consigned to Chiswick Auctions.

Though incomplete and in a decorative 19th century binding, a very desirable early Bible impressed at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium).

A group of works by the elusive Austrian émigré artist Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-96) made a rare appearance at Chiswick Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest British & European Fine Art sale.

Four early pieces of Newcastle plate and a selection of other silver rarities sold at auction this autumn