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Auction date Tuesday, 28 March 2023 13:00 - 16:00 BST

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Included in this auction are sculptural pieces by Tom Merrifield.

In 1976 Tom was commissioned by the Society for West End Theatres to create the sculpture given to the winners of The Olivier Awards (then named the SWET Awards). For the next eight years he would spend months preparing the numerous pieces required for each ceremony which so many of theatre’s top talent now hold in pride of place on their mantelpieces

Possibly the most poignant of sculptures Tom has created is that depicting Diana, Princess of Wales. Having met and connected instantly with the Princess long before she died, Tom was considered by the British Red Cross to be best suited to create an exquisite bust of their former patron; now displayed at the Red Cross headquarters in London.

Tom Merrifield: Flight - £15,000-25,000

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Total lots: 74

Lot 1 Unsold
A rare carved limestone cylindrical pedestal
16th/17th century
Southern French/Northern Italian
carved in relief with papal armorials
(top moulding missing)
150cm high by 82cm diameter
Garden ornament
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 2 Sold
A rare and unusually small Istrian type stone wellhead
Veneto province, 16/17th century
with later wrought iron overthrow
the well head 60cm high by 80cm wide
220cm high overall
Garden ornamentWater feature
Hammer price: £3,800
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 3 Sold
A rare Georgian carved stone sundial
late 18th century
with 14 inch bronze plate signed Thomas Benbow Northwood and engraved with a map of the world and longitudinal measurements
117cm high
Thomas Benbow is recorded as a clockmaker working in Newport Salop between 1778 and c1800Garden…
Hammer price: £2,500
Estimate: £2,500 - £4,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 4 Sold
A bronze figure of a putto
18th century or earlier on stone base
68cm high
Garden ornamentGarden statue 
Hammer price: £10,000
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 5 Unsold
A carved white marble putto
Italian, late 17th/early 18th century
with indistinct signature possibly Guisseppe Losi
60cm high
Garden ornamentGarden statue 
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 6 Sold
A carved white marble bust of the Venus d'Arles
Italian
second half 19th century
70cm high on white and veined marble column pedestal
185cm high overall
The original statue of the Venus of Arles is  in the Musée du Louvre. It is in Hymettus marble and…
Hammer price: £3,200
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 7 Sold
Joseph Edgar Boehm: A carved marble bust of Lieut Col Hon Augustus Frederick Ellis
signed AVC Fred.Ellis
Etat24
J.E.Boehm 1876
After Chantry 1824
64cm high
Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Augustus Frederick Ellis 17 September 1800 – 16 August 1841 was a British…
Hammer price: £3,000
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 8 Unsold
A carved white marble fountain and pool base
circa 1900
130cm high; pool 120cm diameter
Garden ornamentWater feature
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 9 Unsold
Emile Wolff: A carved white marble group of the sleeping cupid and a dog
signed E. Woolf Fe Roma 1870
44cm high by 100cm long
Emil Wolff (1802–1879) was a 19th-century German sculptor and occasional artist in oil paints.He…
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 10 Sold
Aristide Fontana
A carved white marble group of Hebe and Zeus in the form of an eagle
circa 1880
signed Aristide Fontana Sc
Carrara
102cm high
Garden ornamentGarden statue Mythological sculpture 
Hammer price: £2,600
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 11 Unsold
A carved white fountain group
early 20th century
66cm high
Garden ornamentGarden statue 
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 12 Sold
A monumental and important carved marble sundial
Portuguese, Oporto region, mid 18th century
357cm high by 130cm wide by 62cm deep
Portugal has a rich tradition of country houses  and manors indigenously known as  solares or…
Hammer price: £75,000
Estimate: £60,000 - £100,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 13 Sold
A rare pair of Coade stone oval plaques
late 18th century
modelled in relief with a Roman sacrifice of a bull and Cupid being placed on the altar of love
the back of both inscribed in pencil
From Gt Saxham Hall around 1772
33cm high by 40 cm wide
 Eleanor Coade (d.1821) opened her Lambeth Manufactory for ceramic artificial stone in 1769, and…
Hammer price: £7,000
Estimate: £2,500 - £4,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 14 Sold
A pair of rare terracotta eagles
late 19th century
each with indistinct makers stamp Blanchard Terracotta London
64cm high
Mark Henry Blanchard served his apprenticeship with the Coade Company and around 1839 established…
Hammer price: £5,500
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 15 Sold
A pair of substantial Doulton stoneware urns
late 19th century
with makers stamp Doulton & Co. Lambeth
98cm high
These urns are illustrated in the 1894 Doulton and Co catalogue  of Terra Cotta Garden Vases no…
Hammer price: £1,900
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 16 Sold
A terracotta Albani urn
early 20th century
on associated composition stone pedestal
113cm high by 96cm wide
Garden ornamentGarden planters
Hammer price: £1,900
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 17 Unsold
A pair of rare Austin and Seeley composition stone urns
second half 19th century
on carved Portland stone pedestals
53cm high by 73cm diameter
128cm high overall
Felix Austin went into business in 1828 having bought moulds from a firm that had gone out of…
Estimate: £6,000 - £10,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 18 Sold
Edward Hodges Bailey (British, 1788-1867)
Nelson receiving the Spanish surrender after the Battle of St Vincent
circa 1826
A white marble relief frieze panel in two sections
146cm high x 376cm overall length
the larger section 46cm at maximum depth, the smaller 35cm
Edward Hodges Baily RA FRS was a prolific English sculptor responsible for numerous public…
Hammer price: £72,000
Estimate: £20,000 - £40,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 19 Unsold
A substantial Victorian gothic carved Cotswold stone sundial
circa 1860
with later 12"bronze dial on square plinth
152cm high
Garden ornament 
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 20 Unsold
A Georgian carved Portland stone sundial
mid 18th century
with later rare Austin and Seeley 12" slate dial with bronze gnomen
126cm
The firm of Austin and Seeley was known for making composition stone ornament in the second half of…
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 21 Sold
A carved alabaster group of mother and child on garden seat
Italian circa 1900
46cm high by 58cm long
on associated carved serpentine rotating column pedestal with D-shaped top, 123cm high
overall 169cm high
Sculpture
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 22 Sold
A rare pair of carved Cotswold limestone scroll pots
19th century
51cm high by 69cm diameter

See similar lot 23
This design which was copied and popularised by the Compton Pottery in Surrey set up in the early…
Hammer price: £2,700
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 23 Sold
A similar slightly smaller pair of carved Cotswold limestone scroll pots
19th century
45cm high by 61cm diameter

See similar lot 22

***Ref 9 has been split up into two consecutive lots***
This design which was copied and popularised by the Compton Pottery in Surrey set up in the early…
Hammer price: £2,200
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
28 March 2023
28 March 2023
Lot 24 Unsold
A pair of Victorian carved Cotswold stone urns
circa 1860
on plinths
62cm high
Garden ornamentGarden planters
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
28 March 2023
28 March 2023

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