Antiques

Origin: EnglishPeriod: 21stCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.2013Height: 11”Width: 7”Depth: 12”The taxidermy domestic adult house cat (Felis catus), with green eyes and white coat, wonderfully poised in a freestanding and attentive seated position, the whole surviving from the twenty first century in super overall condition, preserved by...

Origin: IrishPeriod: Early 21stCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.2000-2010Height: 28.5”Width: 25”Depth: 2.75”The abstract portrait using colour bleeding to produce the portrait of a lady in a red vest top, with long black hair, the figure almost becoming one with the background, a taupe ledge to the lower...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late Victorian & Late 20thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c.1890-1990Width: 16”Height: 7”Depth: 12”The black leather covered mid-century traveling carry case with the pentacle logo inscribed to the top, opening to reveal another pentacle inscribed pine box along with a multitude of items associated with...

Origin: CanadianPeriod: Mid/Late 20thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c.1980Width: 24”Height: 42”Depth: 2”The coffin shaped hand-painted mortician premises sign of good size, reading “P. W. Maller Mortician, Coffins Made to Order, Finest Canadian Pine, Special Rates” in gold paint to a black ground and surviving from the...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c..1992Height: 25”Width: 21”Depth: 8” (all at extremities)The most likely unique and most certainly charming hand painted model of a stylised prowling cat, in a brilliant topaz electric blue, personified with a neckerchief and earring, and a bandage to one...

Origin: UnknownPeriod: Late 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1980-90Height: 21.5”Width: 8.5”Depth: 12” (all at extremities)The painted plaster model of a standing hound, hand-made and painted with a repeating pattern of whimsical floral and avian motifs to a lemon yellow ground and seated atop a tufted pillow, the...

Origin: FrenchPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1935-55Height: 37”Width: 30.75”Depth: 1”The half-length portrait of a dashing French gentleman of good size, the sitter probably in his forties and being clean shaven with a good head of dark hair looking out towards the viewer, painted in oils...

Origin: FrenchPeriod: Mid/Late 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1970-80 – the frame c.1890In Frame: Height: 19”Width: 15.75”Depth: 1.5”The vintage abstract geometric painting, hailing from the seventies, painted in the monochrome non-primary colours of white and black, consisting of triangular sections and mounted in a distressed nineteenth century...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1996Height: 14.25”Width: 5.25” Depth: 3.5” (all at extremities and with hanging loop)The cast alabaster wall mask of a lion's head, highly stylised, mounted to a green serpentine marble base with iron ring hanging attachment, and surviving from the last...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1900Height: 9.5”Width: 16.5”Depth: 5.5”The preserved stoat (Mustela erminea) specimen housed within a naturalistic setting of grasses and branches with a naïve and whimsically painted background of trees, a farmhouse and a windmill amongst birds, the whole housed in a...

Origin: ScottishPeriod: Mid-VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1880Height: 13”Width: 11.5”Depth: 2”The beautifully untouched half-length portrait in rectangular form of a lady, wearing a lace bonnet and burgundy overcoat to a dark ground, painted in oils on canvas and surviving from the latter part of nineteenth century Scotland...

Origin: FrenchPeriod: Renaissance RevivalProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1870-90Height: 27”Width: 15”Depth: 9.5”The Top: 9.5” x 9.75”Formally an architectural opposing side of a fire surround or large piece of furniture, the wonderfully well carved grotesque dolphin with scaled surface and gaping mouth to a stylised forked tail, and...

Origin: ItalianPeriod: NeoclassicalProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1830-40Height: 35.75”Width: 25.5”Depth: 21.5” (all at extremities)The very fine quality neoclassical period fruitwood carcass adorned with gilded highlights, with a fabulous overall colour from the region of Piedmont, northern Italy, having a shaped top above three graduating drawers with flower...

Origin: French or Dutch Period: Mid / Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: 1850-70 Height: 21.5 inches Width: 17 inches The hand coloured, cut and shaped lithograph on paper, shows a recently deceased partridge suspended on an inky blue ground from a pinned string,...

Origin: Probably GermanPeriod: Mid/Late 19thCProvenance: The collection of the late Professor Michael Jaffé, Clifton MaybankDate: c.1870-80Height: 36”Width: 54”Depth: 19” (all at extremities)The child's two-in-one rocking and pull along horse, composed in wood and hessian and covered in its original horse hide covering with hair...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1870-90Width: 15”Depth: 14”Height: 19” (all at extremities)The very decorative part slate grey painted plaster portrait bust of the emperor Julius Caesar, in his prime years, shown shoulder length in state dress, facing slightly to dexter, and surviving from the last...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Early VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1840-50Depth: 18.5”Width: 28.5”Height: 25”The rectangular sandy sage green painted pine storage or campaign type carrying luggage trunk, having a hinged double-hatched sloping lid revealing a vacant interior, one flank being beautifully sign-written 'Lord Hindlip, Hindlip Hall, Worcester, England' in...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late Victorian & LaterProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1870 & LaterWidth: 45”Height: 35.75”Depth: 12.5” (all at top)In largely original condition, the chocolate painted flight or bank of thirty-six drawers each with brass knob handles and remnants of hand written workshop labels, the carcass with later...

Origin: BritishPeriod: Mid-VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1870Height: 23.5”Diameter: 18”The Base: 9.5” squareThe well-proportioned cast iron campana urn, almost certainly by the Andrew Handyside foundry, the whole dry scraped back to its original lemon coloured painted finish, with a semi-lobed tapering flared body with grape vine swags...

Origin: AmericanPeriod: Mid/Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1860-80Height: 10"Width: 12"The charming depiction in oils on canvas, in the provincial naïve manner, showing a tarpon fish leaping in profile having been line caught, to a grey sky and foamy sea green waters, the whole signed lower right...