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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
49	A bronze group of two boys playing acrobats 2nd half 20th century indistinctly signed and with foundry stamp 244cm high	£5,000 - £8,000	-	View
50	A bronze fountain 20th century with two cranes on a branch in bulrushes, mouths and bulrushes plumbed for water 214cm high	£4,000 - £6,000	-	View
51	A bronze fountain group of three cranes signed T Canpiola 137cm high	£6,000 - £10,000	-	View
52	▲Jean Phillipe Richard (ARR applies) Draped female bronze signed Richard and dated ’02 and numbered III/IV together with indistinct foundry stamp on stone base 190cm high overall, the bronze 172cm high	£4,000 - £6,000	-	View
53	A massive pair of polished Lytoceras ammonite halves Madagascan, Jurassic 118cm wide	£5,000 - £7,000	£6,000	View
54	An Iguanodon tail vertebrae Isle of Wight (Dinosaur Isle) 80cm long Iguanodon was one of the first dinosaurs to be described in the early 19th century	£6,000 - £7,000	-	View
55	A Siphocrynites crynoid plate Morocco Devonian period, 360 million years 42cm high	£450 - £600	£450	View
56	A Speetoniceras ammonite Russia, Volgar river, Upper Jurassic, 140 millions years 31cm wide	£700 - £900	-	View
57	An Orthoceras spear Morocco Devonian 190cm high overall	£1,000 - £1,500	£1,000	View
58	A large fossil wood slice Arizona, USA, Triassic period, 220 million years 78cm by 60cm	£6,500 - £7,500	-	View
59	A fossilised wood freeform Madagascar Triassic 27cm high	£300 - £500	£300	View
60	A fossilised fresh water turtle shell Stylemis, Oligocene period, 35 million years, South Dakota 30cm long	£700 - £900	-	View
61	A Rose amethyst half moon Brazil 31cm	£300 - £500	-	View
62	A large Red jasper bowl Southern Africa 56cm by 42cm	£950 - £1,200	£950	View
63	A zebra onyx bowl Mexican 33cm wide	£1,000 - £1,500	-	View
64	A labradorite freeform Madagascar 25cm high	£300 - £500	-	View
65	A large lapis lazuli freeform 55cm high by 31cm wide 68.8kg	£7,000 - £8,000	-	View
66	A turquoise veneered wood box 20cm by 14cm by 4cm	£3,000 - £5,000	-	View
67	A petrified wood veneered box Washington, USA 13.5cm by 12cm by 4cm	£3,000 - £4,000	-	View
68	A charoite veneered box 18cm by 11cm by 4cm	£2,500 - £3,500	-	View
69	A Scarlet Ibis modern 63cm high	£600 - £800	£600	View
70	A hyacinth macaw 67cm high by 56cm	£1,200 - £1,800	-	View

Total lots: 70

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