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Auction date Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Day 1 of 2 day sale

Tuesday 5th October 13.00 BST Lots 1-79

Wednesday 6th October Sealed Bid auction Lots 100-313 (Click on the sale date to take you to this catalogue) 

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Total lots: 79

Lot 1 Sold
A substantial stone trough
49cm high by 222cm long by 102cm wide
Hammer price: £4,000
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 2 Sold
A Coade stone boundary marker plaque depicting the seal of St Olave's school and its foundation date 1571
the underside stamped COADE'S LITGODIPYRA London
30cm high by 25cm wide
Provenance: St Olave's school, Tooley Street, LondonEleanor Coade (d.1821) opened her Lambeth…
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £500 - £600
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 3 Sold
A similar Coade stone boundary marker plaque
circa 1780/90
30cm high by 25cm wide

Provenance: St Olave‘s school, Tooley Street, London
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £400 - £600
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 4 Sold
A similar Coade stone boundary marker plaque
A similar Coade stone boundary marker plaque
lacking Coade stamp
30cm high by 25cm wide
Provenance: St Olave‘s school, Tooley Street, London
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £400 - £600
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 5 Sold
A similar Coade stone boundary marker plaque
A similar Coade stone boundary marker plaque
lacking Coade stamp
30cm high by 25cm wide
Provenance: St Olave‘s school, Tooley Street, London

See footnote to lot 2
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £400 - £600
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 6 Unsold
A pair of carved white marble busts of Bacchus and Diana
Italian, 18th century
on later stone bases
108cm high overall
Garden statuary
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 7 Sold
A pair of unusual composition stone armorial crowns
mid 20th century
surmounted by lions
94cm high
Hammer price: £900
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 8 Unsold
An impressive carved white marble bust of Napoleon
first half 20th century
on veined marble plinth
84cm high
Garden StatueGarden Ornament
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 9 Unsold
James Sherwood Westmacott: A carved white marble portrait bust of a gentleman
signed James Sherwood Westmacott and dated 1855
76cm high
James Sherwood Westmacott, 1823-1900, came from a family of renowned sculptors, studying with Sir…
Estimate: £300 - £500
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 10 Sold
A bronze bust of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
cast by Elkington, Mason & Co.
the back stamped Modelled from sitting taken on August 6th, 9th & 11th and November, 1852, by H. Weigall, 27 Somerset St, published October 10th 1852,
together with foundry inscription No.1, executed by Elkington, Mason & Co., on fluted wooden column pedestal,
bust 74cm high, 176cm high overall
Hammer price: £8,000
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 11 Sold
A carved white marble group of child musicians
Italian circa 1900
64cm high by 83cm long
Condition: small nibbling to left big toe of 2nd left figure, small repair to big toe of right foot…
Hammer price: £10,000
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 12 Unsold
Bastiani Guilio: A carved white marble group of two dancing children
Italian late 19th century
signed Bastiani Guilio, Firenze
232cm high, on carved serpentine marble pedestal, 102cm high
Garden Statue
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 13 Sold
A carved white marble fountain
Italian, 19th century
of a boy seated on a rocky outcrop with a dolphins mouth plumbed for water, above a scalloped clam shape bowl
figure 94cm high, bowl 90cm wide
Hammer price: £3,600
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 14 Sold
An unusual cast iron, painted and gilded urn
French, circa 1870
53cm high by 68cm wide
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £500 - £800
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 15 Unsold
A pair of important carved Rosso Verona marble baths from La Suvera, Siena, country villa of Pope Julius II and latterly the Ricci family
Italian Renaissance, 16th century
of tapering form with drilled drainage hole
74cm high by 172cm long
Provenance; By family repute from Horton Hall, Northamptonshire, seat of the Earls of Halifax.…
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 16 Unsold
A Coalbrookdale style Oak and Ivy pattern cast iron seat
20th century
148cms wide
(see engraving)
Garden FurnitureGarden Bench
Estimate: £500 - £800
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 17 Sold
A Coalbrookdale rustic pattern cast iron seat
late 19th/early 20th century
180cms wide
The original design, number 78766, was registered and patented at the public record office by the…
Hammer price: £1,500
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 18 Sold
A pair of lead figures of Cupid and Psyche
early 20th century
each titled on base and now on earlier rare Blanchard terracotta pedestals, one with circular manufacturers' stamp inscribed Blanchard terra cotta London 1861 and the other with rectangular stamp inscribed terra cotta mark H Blanchard and Co, Blackfriars Rd London
Statue 96cm high, 149cm high overall
This rare pair of lead statues were almost certainly made from moulds taken from two 19th century…
Hammer price: £17,000
Estimate: £8,000 - £10,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 19 Sold
After John van Nost: A lead sundial of a kneeling North American Indian
second half 20th century
133cm high
Hammer price: £2,600
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 20 Sold
A composition stone group of a dog and children
possibly by Austin & Sealey
second half of 19th century
102cm high by 140cm wide
This rare group was almost certianly produced by the firm of Austin and Seeley.  Felix Austin…
Hammer price: £4,200
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 21 Sold
An Austin and Seeley composition stone figure of Diana de Gabies
2nd half 19th century
on later stone plinth
the figure 180cm high, 224cm high overall
Felix Austin started making artificial stone in 1828 and etablished works in New Road, London. …
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 22 Unsold
A pair of unusual carved green granite urns
early 20th century
56cm high by 83cm wide
Garden ornament
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 23 Sold
A rare suite of faux bois composition stone furniture
French, mid 19th century
comprising table seat and two chairs
the table 75cm diameter, the seat 130cm long
Hammer price: £2,300
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021
Lot 24 Sold
A bronze figure of the Medici Venus Italian
Italian, 1st half 19th century
on carved Portland stone plinth
the figure 157cm high, 220cm high overall
The Venus de Medici was first recorded in 1638 at the Villa Medici in Rome, although it is likely…
Hammer price: £14,000
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
5 October 2021
5 October 2021

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