The sale at commemoratives specialists Historical & Collectable in Padworth, Reading on May 2 includes, estimated at £1400-1800, this late-17th century English delft portrait dish. It is painted in magenta, blue, yellow and turquoise with a crowned full-length figure of William III wearing armour and a cloak, holding the orb and a stylised sceptre.
The type is traditionally attributed to London or Brislington.
Timurid painting of Baysunghur in the Guise of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba painted in Herat in the first half 15th century, estimate £150,000-200,000 at Christie’s in King Street.
The Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds sale at Christie’s King Street on April 27 includes this Timurid painting of Baysunghur in the Guise of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Painted in Herat in the first half 15th century, it is one of the earliest depictions of what later became a popular subject in Persian painting.
Estimate £150,000-200,000.
A complete Armenian illuminated Gospel book dating from the 16th century or earlier, estimate £1000-1500 at Roseberys.
Roseberys’ Antiquities, Islamic, and Indian Arts auction in south London on April 28 includes a complete Armenian illuminated Gospel book dating from the 16th century or earlier. The manuscript on vellum featuring three portrait pages of the Evangelists has an estimate of £1000-1500.
Gio Ponti highlights at Phillips include this prototype side table, c.1955, estimated at £5000-7000.
Phillips is holding a sale titled Casa Fornaroli on April 27 comprising objects from the apartment of the architect and engineer Antonio Fornaroli. Together the 61 lots provide “a window into the intimate day-to-day life of a mid-century Italian family with close artistic connections”. Everything, down to the glasses and light fittings, was made for the Fornaroli family by their close circle of artist, architect, and designer friends.
Gio Ponti highlights include this prototype side table, c.1955, estimated at £5000-7000.
Silver plated ‘elephant’ desk stand made by James Deakin & Son, Sheffield with a presentation inscription dated 1882, estimate £400-600 at Stamford Auction Rooms.
This silver-plated ‘elephant’ desk stand made by James Deakin & Son, Sheffield has a presentation inscription to James Anderson Esq dated 1882.
Complete with inkwells and under its original glass dome and stand, it has an estimate of £400-600 at Stamford Auction Rooms in Lincolnshire on April 29.
First edition, three-volume copy of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey from 1847, estimate £10,000-20,000 at Cheffins.
Cheffins will sell a number of early Brontë sisters books in the upcoming Library Sale on April 27. All come from one private Cambridge-based collector.
This first edition, three-volume copy of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey from 1847 has a guide of £10,000-20,000. The exact number of copies printed by Thomas Cautley Newby is unknown, but it is suggested by Charlotte Brontë in a letter of September 13, 1850, that the edition was limited to 250 copies.
This copy, with some leaves supplied from later copy, is bound in blue half morocco by Riviere & Son for Sotheran.
Wrigglework flat-lid tankard by John Dunn, London, (fl.1683-1727), estimate £12,000-18,000 at Bishop & Miller.
Bishop & Miller of Stowmarket is selling the collection of Tony Chapman, a past president of the Pewter Society, on April 27.
The sale includes some rare English forms including this wrigglework flat-lid tankard by John Dunn, London, (fl.1683-1727) estimated at £12,000-18,000. Dated to c.1695-1700, it carries the bust of William III, the initials WR, the royal supporters of a lion and unicorn and the floral motifs of the rose, the thistle and the tulip.
One of only nine recorded, it was last sold as part of the David Little collection at Christie’s in 2007.
Bookcase by Jim Partridge from 1987, estimate £3000-5000 at Lyon & Turnbull.
The Modern Made sale at Lyon & Turnbull on April 28 includes a group of art and design objects consigned by British textile artist and designer Ann Sutton (b.1935).
It includes furniture made in the 1980s for her Arundel home and studio by former student Jim Partridge (b.1953) whom she had met in 1977.
The artist cabinet-maker recalls that the pair worked together on a new kind of furniture that, while certainly not fine cabinet making, had plenty of attitude.
A two-seat plank bench and a warped stool from 1984 (estimate £3000-5000 and £1000-1500) and the bookcase pictured here from 1987 (estimate £3000-5000) are all included in the sale.
Made in the saw-cut and scorched oak that became Partridge’s signature, he describes these pieces as pioneers of “a new language for woodworking. I had exhibited this work before, but Ann was the first to buy it, to understand, trust and encourage the qualities I was hoping to achieve.”
