A large oil painting with a view towards Elizabeth Castle, St Helier, Jersey, is being sold by Charterhouse in Sherborne, Dorset, on July 5.
By Richard Beavis (1824-96), it is a romanticised picture of civil war soldiers in a military column crossing the sands with the castle towering above.
The work (pictured top), which spent decades hanging in the dining room of a Tudor manor house near Salisbury, is estimated at £1000-2000.
Lemon-yellow glaze wares were the most esteemed glaze of the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods and their use was strictly controlled by the imperial family.
This dish with a Qianlong (1736-95) mark and of the period was previously part of the Mottahedeh collection and was bought from Sotheby’s New York in 2000. It has a guide of €5000-7000 as part of Adam’s June 25 Asian art sale in Dublin.
Necklace, earrings and a pair of matching bracelets converted from a Belle Époque seed pearl and diamond sautoir, with box monogrammed MEC for Mary Endicott Chamberlain, estimate £7000-9000 at Roseberys.
Converted from a Belle Époque seed pearl and diamond sautoir, this necklace, earrings and a pair of matching bracelets come in a fitted case by Carrington & Co. Regent St, London.
The box is monogrammed MEC for Mary Endicott Chamberlain, the widow of Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain who later married William Carnegie.
It comes for sale by family descent at Roseberys in south London on June 25 with expectations of £7000-9000.
This Elizabethan horn powder measure has a guide of £1500-2500 at Bishop & Miller as part of the Oak Interior sale in Stowmarket on June 20.
The inscription that surrounds the heart motifs and a portrait of a lady reads Though triumph after bloody wars, the greatest brags do bear, Yet triumph of a conquered mind, the crown of fame shall wear. It is a couplet from Richard Edwards’ poem Of Fortune’s Power published anonymously in 1576, and under Edwards’ name in 1578.
Hornby 0-gauge 4-4-2 locomotive and eight-wheel tender, 31801 in Nord brown livery, three rail electric, estimate £100-200 at Anderson & Garland.
This Hornby 0-gauge 4-4-2 locomotive and eight-wheel tender, 31801 in Nord brown livery, three rail electric, estimate £100-200, is one of the lots in an extensive collection of model trains and railway memorabilia on offer at Anderson & Garland.
The sale of items amassed by the late Dr Frederick William Hampson takes place in Newcastle upon Tyne on June 20.
Dr Hampson dedicated much of his life to the art and science of steam and railway locomotive models. He was also involved with The Tanfield Railway in north-east England, a heritage line. His 363-lot collection includes a diverse array of commercial pieces, works by renowned model makers and numerous models crafted by Dr Hampson himself.
Two watercolours by Ernest Howard Shepard depicting scenes from Wind in the Willows come for sale at Dominic Winter, estimate £10,000-15,000 each.
Two watercolours by Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976) depicting scenes from Wind in the Willows come for sale at Dominic Winter in South Cerney on June 20. They have guides of £10,000-15,000 each.
The two works, used in new Methuen edition of Wind in the Willows in 1959, were acquired by the vendors’ parents directly from the artist at an exhibition of his own work in Haslemere, Surrey, in 1965. Framed and mounted for the exhibition, they were priced at 15 guineas each.
Pictured here is The Hour is Come. Depicting a scene from the end of Chapter 12, ‘The Return of Ulysses’, it shows Badger, with Ratty, Mole and Toad at the threshold of Toad Hall ready to attack the Weasels.
A second watercolour shows Ratty and Mole in a rowing boat with Otter and his young son Portly, a scene described in Chapter 7 ‘The Piper at the Gates'. The picture was used as a full-bleed design on the dust jacket of the 1959 edition.
Sworders is selling a collection of theatrically themed works from the family of actor John Savident who played the character of Fred Elliot in Coronation Street for 12 years.
Sworders’ Homes and Interiors sale on June 26 includes a collection of theatrically themed works from the family of the British actor John Savident (1937-2024) who played the character of Fred Elliot in Coronation Street for 12 years.
Despite acting like he was born and bred in Weatherfield, Savident was born in Guernsey and spent much of his life in south-east England. He and his family lived close to Sworders in Henham, Essex.
Sworders will sell the John Savident collection in 70 lots in total with estimates ranging from £100-500.
The actor began buying Georgian and Victorian theatre playbills, prints and ephemera promoting the sights and sounds of the theatres of Drury Lane and Covent Garden in London and others in Manchester, Bristol, Leeds and Birmingham in the 1960s. Most were bought from the antiquarian book and print shops in Cecil Court, the small street between Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane where Sworders now has a London office.
Of particular note is the array of ‘tinsel’ or ‘dressed’ prints, the once hugely popular early to mid-19th century prints of actors to which coloured foil highlights were added at home. At the time they were priced at a penny for a line printed subject and two pence for a coloured image.
There are more than a dozen framed examples in the sale including two prints titled Mr Osbaldiston as William Tell and Mr Payne as Robin Hood guided at £100-200.
Portrait of Miss SD Chambers by John Russell RA, estimate £8000-12,000 at Bonhams.
Bonhams is to offer the selected contents of Great Witchingham House, a Georgian rectory once owned by former design director of leather goods at Louis Vuitton, Nicholas Knightly. The sale, which includes works of art, furniture, and decorative items, will run until July 3.
Knightly bought the house in the early 2000s and with the help of architect Ptolemy Dean, he set out to return the Georgian rectory to its former glory. Retaining a lot of original features, it was built by a church in a small village in north Norfolk in the 1780s. The only renovations to the house since then had come in the 1830s, when the then new rector redeveloped and enlarged the property.
Knightly spent four years decorating and furnishing his new home, collaborating with art and antiques dealers such as Will Fisher at Jamb, Humphrey Currasco, Max Rollit, Christopher Howe and Philip Mould, as well as sourcing from famous country house auctions.
Shown here is one of the lots, estimated at £8000-12,000: Portrait of Miss SD Chambers by John Russell RA (1745-1806).
Silver desk standish centred by a neoclassical muse on the theme of the arts has import marks for CS Harris & Sons, London c.1914, estimate £800-1200 at Claydon Auctioneers.
This silver desk standish centred by a neoclassical muse on the theme of the arts has import marks for CS Harris & Sons, London c.1914. It has a guide of £800-1200 at Claydon Auctioneers in Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, on June 23-24.
Pair of Edward VII silver inkwells by Sebastian Garrard, London, 1904, that belonged to Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery and 1st Earl Midlothian, estimate £400-600 at Tennants.
Tennants’ Fine Jewellery, Watches & Silver Sale on July 13 includes a selection of silver purchased in the legendary 1977 ‘Sale of the Century’ at Mentmore Towers, conducted by Sotheby’s.
Mentmore is the grand country house built for the Rothschild family in Buckinghamshire in the 1850s. It was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton in the so-called ‘Jacobeathan’ style for Baron Mayer de Rothschild, of the banking family. A celebrated collector, his country home became a grand gallery housing his renowned collections of fine and decorative art.
Highlights of Mentmore silver on offer in this auction in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, include a pair of Edward VII silver inkwells by Sebastian Garrard, London, 1904 (estimate £400-600). They belonged to Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery and 1st Earl Midlothian, who married Hannah de Rothschild, only heir of Baron Meyer de Rothschild.
