Gallery 8: Objets d’Art

 

 

Voysey tile:

 

Ref. Voysey A rare Vosey green design tile pot stand decorated in low relief with a devil, marked on rear JC Edwards, Ruabon, measuring 16cm x 16cm in excellent condition. C.F.A. Vosey (1857-1941) was an architect and designer and follower of the Arts & Crafts movement.

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£ 190.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wedgwood tile

 

Ref. Cobweb This rare tile of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, in its original wooden stand, dates from around 1882 and depicts a fairy swinging in a cobweb, after a Shakespeare play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, attributed to Thomas Allen or Helen JA Miles (see “Fired Earth, 1000 years of Tiles in Europe). It measures 16cm x 16cm and is offered in perfect condition.

 

£ 190.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ceramic wall panel

 

Ref. Goujon A magnificent and rare decorative ceramic wall panel of a nymph (nymphe des sources) after the French Renaissance sculptor Jean Goujons (c. 1510-1572) design for the “Fontaine des Innocents”, 1547-1550 (Fontaine of the Innocents). Some of the original six panels are now in the “Louvre”. This design was also reproduced by the Ferdinand Barbedienne bronze foundry in the late 19th Century. This unmarked panel has also been made at the very end of the 19th Century and measures 11cm x 41cm, and is offered in very good condition. (For reference see “Louis Conse, La Sculpture Française depuis le XIV Siècle, 1895” – showing below the corresponding illustration of the same water nymph).

 

£ 250.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bronze roundel

 

Ref. Honneur Patrie This decorative French bronze roundel of H. Dubois after Antonin Mercié (1798-1875) was cast by F. Barbedienne with the “Union Internationle des Société de Tir de France description” and bearing the signatures of H. Dubois and A. Mercié and that of foundry F. Barbedienne. The roundel is 25cm wide.

 

£ 480.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French Bronze Relief Plaque

 

Ref. Venus & Cupid - dating from around mid-19th Century (possibly earlier), this substantial and attractive bronze plaque in the Renaissance style measures 21.5cm x 36cm and bears a foundry stamp on the back (difficult to decipher). 

 

£ 680.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ref. Richard Garbe – a fine English Bronze Relief Portrait of Jessica Trevillion by this famous sculptor, 1876-1957, RA and Professor at RCA... The inscriptions read:

‘Jessie Trevillion April XIX AETAT XVI and is signed “Richard Garbe” (on the left) and A.D.MCMVI (1905). Size: 9cm x 16cm.

 

£ 380.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Original Hogarth Copperplate

 

Ref. Harlots Progress This fine framed Hogarth copperplate weights 1.5kg and measures 42cm x 37cm and bears the inscription “Wm. Hogarth invg pinxg et sculpt”.

For reference see: Hogarth gravures (French edition), published by Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1968, plate 136. The plate is not scratched and has a fine coppery glow that lights up beautifully. A very decorative and unusual copperplate well framed in authentice Victorian frame.

 

£ 120.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

French Neoclassical Vessel

 

Ref. Bronze vessel This is a very decorative lidded bronze objets d’art –  . 9.5cm high and 8cm wide – with the lower floral surround attached to the bronze structure – in rich dark patina dates from the early 19th Century and is offered in good condition.

 

£ 110.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moorcroft

 

Ref. Clemantis This Moorcroft Clemantis bowl, diameter 19cm, in perfect condition is dated post-1927-28 when the factory received the royal warrant for Queen Mary, showing the original paper label and the Walter Moorcroft initials and impressed Moorcroft mark (see photo).

 

£ 120.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sarraguemines faience plate

 

Ref. Sarraguemine A decorative and humorous faience plate of around 1900. The placard on the left  carries the message “L’Amour Ton Oublier, Vin Nouveau de Surèsne, on met en perce et en bouteille” (roughly translated: The Love and Forgetting, New wine from Surèsne from the barrel or bottle). The putto, admired by the couple, is working on a barrel-making contraption. Diametre c.22cm in mint condition! The back of this wall plate shows the mark of the French Sarraguemines ceramic works.

 

£ 35.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art Nouveau mirror

 

Ref. Marquetry This is a unique and superb art nouveau mirror with marquetry inlay in various woods, reminiscent of Gallé or Majorelle in terms of quality. Measuring 90cm x 46cm. As the text on the back reflects, this mirror was made by a prisoner of war during the 1914. The inscription reads: “Knockaloe Camps – made by P.o.W. 525 – 1914 War - England”. (Unfortunately, the photo does not properly reflect the vibrancy of the wood work.) Due to the size and weight of this object, it is suggested that the buyer arranges for collection himself or by his appointed agent.

 

£ 860.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ref. Rococo mirror. This mirror awaits a bevelled mirror to be fitted and the frame has been sympathetically restored. It is certainly an antique mirror awaiting the appropriate interior. You may put in a marker so that I can inform you of the price as soon as this project is accomplished. Note that the decoration have been applied by hand and differ. The size: 59cm x 50cm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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