Interiors and Decorative Arts

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Furniture, Bronzes, Clocks, Sculpture, Curiosities and Decorative Arts

Our inaugural Interiors sale offers a wide selection of Furniture, Bronzes, Clocks, Sculpture and other Curiosities with the Decorative Arts section adding a tempting mix from Arts & Crafts to Modernism.

The sale features a selection from properties across Sussex and Kent including Possingworth Manor, Blackboys and Calverley Park, Tunbridge Wells. Broadly in chronological order the sale offers a good selection of early oak and walnut furniture, garden urns including a handsome well head, antiquities, tapestries and a several portraits as well as later mahogany furniture and carpets.

Stand out lots that fall into under the banner of Curiosities must include an extraordinary discovery; a 12^th century walrus ivory Tableman (lot 40) – essentially an early form of draughtsman, a significant Irish Roman Catholic illumination (lot 158) and a locket of Napoleon’s hair (lot 162).

Amongst the many fine clocks lot 127 a George III musical bracket clock presents a truly patriotic set of tunes including God Save The King; Rule Britannia; Roast Beef; Flowers of Edinburgh; London March and for those lighter moments Waltz.

The stand-out bronze is lot 177 a good early casting of The Sluggard by Frederic, Lord Leighton and lot 120 offers a great opportunity to acquire a good example of an Italian micro mosaic top table.

Decorative Arts include ceramics by Zsolnay, Moorcroft and De Morgan, Lalique glass, a good early pair of Mouseman stools, Liberty and Guild of Handicraft wares as well as a fine collection of Art Nouveau lamps by Moritz Hacker.

Enjoy the Sale.

Clifford

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A Romanesque madder stained walrus ivory Tableman or gaming piece

Lot 40

A Romanesque madder stained walrus ivory Tableman or gaming piece, Cologne c.1140-1180 AD

Estimate £10,000-£15,000

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A 19th Century Italian illumination presented by Pope Pius IX to Ireland's first Cardinal, Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin

Lot 158

A 19th Century Italian illumination presented by Pope Pius IX to Ireland's first Cardinal, Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, to commemorate the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Estimate £1,500-£2,000

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Lewin Levin of London. A patriotic George III brass-mounted mahogany repeating six-tune musical bracket clock

Lot 127

Lewin Levin of London. A patriotic George III brass-mounted mahogany repeating six-tune musical bracket clock

Estimate £4,000-£6,000

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Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A., R.W.S. (British, 1830-1896), The Sluggard, bronze,

Lot 177

Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A., R.W.S. (British, 1830-1896), The Sluggard, bronze

Estimate £20,000-£30,000

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A 19th century Italian micro mosaic and specimen marble topped centre table,

Lot 120

A 19th century Italian micro mosaic and specimen marble topped centre table

Estimate £3,000-£5,000