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Auction date Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:00 - 16:00 BST

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Members of the Royal Automobile Club on London's historic Pall Mall, London, may recognise an impressive bronze fountain figure of Ondine by popular sculptor Alexandra Beale, which is now becoming available for sale due to the redesigning of the gardens. The fountain was commissioned and installed in 2008 by the RAC, which opened in 1911 and had been built by the fashionable architects Charles Mewès and Arthur Davis, who had already been lauded for the recently constructed Ritz hotels in Paris and London, and the interiors of some of the great ocean-going liners of the day. Ondine, a mythological figure of European tradition, was a water nymph or sprite who could become human only when she fell in love with a mortal man. However, if the mortal was unfaithful to her, he was destined to forfeit his life. It is estimated at £5,000 - £8,000

Further lots included in this auction are a lead cistern fountain, which was part of this year's gold medal winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. The garden had been designed by Chris Beardshaw, well-known from his long broadcasting career, which includes BBC 2's hit series Gardeners' World, Hidden Gardens and The Flying Gardener, and is another award in a line of many won by Chris Beardshaw Design. This garden was designed for the RNLI and the cistern is estimated at £3,500 - £5,000.

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The front cover features: Lot 19 Workshop of Bertel Thorwaldsen: An impressive and important suite o three carved white marble plaques probably 1830s, in bronze frames

£20,000-40,000

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
1	A rare Georgian dated carved stone trough initialled J R and dated 1752 54cm high by 116cm long by 72cm deep	£1,500 - £2,000	£3,600	View
2	A lead figure of a putto holding a bunch of grapes 18th century with restorations on stone base 77cm high	£1,500 - £2,500	£2,100	View
3	A fine and rare lead figure of a mower by John Cheere mid 18th century 135cm high Provenance: Christies sale of The collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson P.R.A, 19th October	£15,000 - £20,000	-	View
4	†A lead cistern fountain removed from Chris Beardshaw’s gold medal winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2022 modern with fountain spout, plumbed for water 110cm high by 107cm wide by 55cm deep	£3,500 - £5,000	£3,500	View
5	A carved white marble bust of a woman Italian, 18th century 65cm high	£2,000 - £3,000	£2,000	View
6	After the antique: A carved alabaster figure of the crouching Venus 19th century 52cm high	£1,200 - £1,800	-	View
7	A carved white marble portrait bust of Nicolas Copernicus 18th century inscribed Nicolo Copernico, Filosofo 68cm high by 43cm wide	£4,000 - £6,000	£4,000	View
8	A pair of carved white marble urns late 19th century 63cm high by 54cm diameter	£3,000 - £4,000	£3,400	View
9	A similar pair of carved white marble urns late 19th century 62cm high by 50cm diameter	£3,000 - £4,000	£3,000	View
10	A similar pair of carved white marble urns late 19th century 62cm and 61cm high by 47cm diameter	£3,000 - £4,000	£3,000	View
11	A similar pair of carved white marble urns late 19th century 63cm and 64cm high by 50cm diameter	£3,000 - £4,000	-	View
12	A similar pair of carved white marble urns late 19th century 70cm high by 56cm diameter	£3,000 - £4,000	£3,000	View
13	A similar pair of carved white marble urns late 19th century 65cm high by 50cm diameter	£3,000 - £4,000	£3,000	View
14	A similar pair of carved white marble urns late 19th century 73cm high by 54cm diameter	£3,000 - £4,000	-	View
15	A similar single carved white marble urn late 19th century 59cm high by 40cm diameter	£1,000 - £1,500	-	View
16	Holme Cardwell A carved white marble group of a classical shepherd youth Rome, mid 19th century signed Holme Cardwell Fecit, Roma and indistinctly dated on later stone rectangular plinth the figure 116cm high, the…	£15,000 - £25,000	£15,000	View
17	A pair of carved white marble urns Italian late 19th century 101cm high on carved limestone pedestals 162cm high overall	£20,000 - £25,000	-	View
18	A carved white marble crouching faun Italian circa 1870 79cm high	£3,000 - £5,000	£4,000	View
19	Workshop of Bertel Thorwaldsen: An impressive and important suite of three carved white marble plaques Rome, probably 1830’s in bronze frames The Three Angels 50cm high by 55cm wide, The pair of Mercury entrusting the infant Bacchus to Ino and Venus comforting Cupid stung by a bee, 49cm high by…	£20,000 - £40,000	-	View
20	Pietro Bazzanti A carved white marble figure of a Neapolitan fisher boy on white marble pedestal late 19th century signed P Bazzanti, Florence 105cm high	£5,000 - £8,000	-	View
21	A pair of carved white marble urns on pedestals 20th century 152cm high	£5,000 - £8,000	£5,000	View
22	A carved white marble bowl on stand Italian 19th century 80cm high by 61cm diameter	£3,000 - £5,000	£3,000	View
23	A pair of shallow marble bowls 18th century or earlier one bearing old Hampel auction house label 22cm high by 50cm diameter	£800 - £1,200	£2,300	View
24	Professor Fortunato Galli, 1830-1918 'Fare Insegna Fare' (Practice Makes Perfect) circa 1900 Carrara marble signed and inscribed 82cm high by 38cm wide by 40cm deep	£4,000 - £6,000	£4,000	View

Total lots: 70

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