The Welsh Sale, Cardiff takes place three times per year at Rogers Jones. The next one will be on 6 Nov 2021, from 9:30am. It is known for selling the highest quality fine art and antiques from Wales and by Welsh artists.
There are a number of works coming under the hammer by some of the Welsh artists that we’ve previously featured in our Desire Desire series; including Paul Peter Piech, Muriel Delahaye, Hywel Harries, Kyffin Williams and Ifor Pritchard. We’ve included some of them below.
There’s a buyer’s premium: 28.80% (inc. VAT) on top of the hammer price. If you bid online via The Saleroom there’s an additional commission of 5.94% (inc. VAT/sales tax).
There is a 4% levee (sic) charged to the buyer on original works of art by EEA and UK artists who are living or have died in the last 70 years of the auction, and which sell for an auction hammer price over 1000 Euros (equivalent to GBP).
Lot 146: PAUL PETER PIECH two colour lithograph
Candle and two opposing faces in the flame, typography by Robert H Shaffer (1915-2017), ‘We must view students not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit’, signed and dated 1998,
Auctioneer’s Note: Shaffer was an American pioneer in the field of student affairs
Provenance: please see Lot 141
Comments: unframed, excellent condition overall
Estimate: £150 – £250
Lot 152: MURIEL DELAHAYE limited edition (67/275) colour print – ‘Walking The Dog’
Signed in pencil, 37 x 47.5cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: no problems, mounted, not framed
Estimate: £200 – £300
Lot 155: HYWEL HARRIES dry-mounting print – Chalybeate Street, Aberystwyth
With Salvation Army Building and Shell petrol station 1970s, 26 x 38cms
Provenance: private collection mid-Wales
Comments: mounted, unframed, printing fault
Estimate: £80 – £120
Lot 199: SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (65/150) colour print – Ynys Mon Farm, Penrhyn Du, Aberffraw
Signed and numbered in pencil, (I) 55 x 73.5cms
Provenance: Private collection, Cardiff
Condition: excellent, framed ready to hang
Estimate: £1,000 – £1,500
Lot 409: GWILYM PRICHARD – ‘Farm Houses, Pembrokeshire’
Oil on canvas – white washed farm in autumnal landscape, signed and dated 77, with exhibition list, 50 x 60cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion, consigned via our Carmarthen office
Comments: no apparent problems, framed
Estimate: £1,800 – £2,500
Lot 411: IFOR PRITCHARD – ‘Y Gafael Tyner’
Oil on board. Slate worker splitting on a blue background, entitled verso ‘Y Gafael Tyner (The Gentle Touch)’, signed, 46 x 35cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: framed, no problems
Estimate: £800 – £1,200
Lot 503: 1843 WELSH WOOL SAMPLER TO ELIZABETH EDWARDS
Containing a series of flowers in vases around a house or school house, religious passage above, below in cartouche ‘Elizabeth Edwards, her work in the year 1843 aged 14 years – fear the Lord and depart from evil’, size including frame 54 x 52cms
Provenance: private collection, Gloucestershire, believed from the vendor’s ancestral town of Llanelli, bequeathed from vendor’s aunt
Comments: good example, colours have held, aged but not extensively discoloured, old frame with glazing
Estimate: £150 – £200
Lot 505: 19TH CENTURY SYCAMORE CARVED LOVE-SPOON
Decorated with pierced treskelion motif over a pierced flower-head over a smaller geometrically carved flower circle, surrounded by chisel-point carving and with two scratched hearts, the reverse with crudely scratched 1854, 30cms
Provenance: private collection, formerly with Tim Bowen Antiques, Carmarthenshire
Auctioneer’s Note: similar at Swansea Museum donated by Col. W E Llewellyn Morgan and described as Carmarthenshire in origin (postcard photo showing this example to accompany produced by Royal Institute of South Wales)
Comments: chip to edge of bowl but without other fault, very good rich chestnut colour, good example
Estimate: £400 – £600