Winter Two Day Fine Art & Antiques Auction

The Winter Two Day Fine Art & Antiques Auction will be held by The Great Western Auctions Ltd Friday 9^th Dec 2022, from 10am.

431 lots will be up for sale; to include furniture, rugs & 20^th century design , ceramics, ethnic art , silver,  coins , whisky & wine. Christmas is coming up, so we’ve included a few items here that would make great presents.

Great Western charges a buyer’s premium of 28.8% (inc. VAT). The auction house offers an in-house postage & packaging service for appropriate items. Each request is assessed on an individual basis to determine the best method of dispatch and relevant costs.

Bid live via EasyLiveAuction (a 3% surcharge of the hammer price or a £3 flat fee in addition to the standard buyer’s premium will be payable) or The Saleroom (a 5% surcharge + VAT of the hammer price in addition to the standard buyer’s premium will be payable).

Lot 2037: AN E GOYARD PARIS LEATHER AND WOOD BOUND STEAMER TRUNK
with all-over printed design, leather edges and wooden ribs held by bronzed metal mounts, brass hinged handles to either end, metal casters to underside and original label to interior below tray, 35cm high x 103cm wide x 56cm deep
Estimate: £300 – £500

Lot 2042: AN EARLY 20^TH CENTURY LIBERTY OF LONDON STYLE LEATHER HIPPOPOTAMUS FOOTSTOOL
with glass eyes, 32cm high x 59cm long x 26cm deep
Estimate: £200 – £400

Lot 2044: A 19/20^TH CENTURY TEAK SHIPS CABIN WASH STAND
with three asymmetrical cabinet doors over fall front ceramic wash basin, 172cm high x 54cm wide x 32cm deep
Estimate: £100 – £200

Lot 2102: A MID 20^TH CENTURY MARIO BELLINI NEST OF FOUR STACKING TABLES
moulded from mustard coloured fibreglass with marks cast into underside, 26cm high x 52cm wide x 52cm deep
Estimate: £100 – £200

Lot 2119: A MID 20^TH CENTURY FABIO LENCI FOR GUZZINI ‘FOCUS’ ARC LAMP
with opaque spherical shade suspended from chrome arc support terminating in white painted weighted base, 239cm high
Estimate: £200 – £400

Lot 2156: A LOUISE JINKS FOR TROIKA POTTERY WHEEL VASE
with incised and relief decoration, in shades of brown, cream and green, signed to base, 16.5cm high
Estimate: £200 – £400

Lot 2491: AN EARLY 17^TH CENTURY NORWEGIAN SILVER SPOON
with a plain fig-shaped bowl, with engraved decoration, the wrythen stem with punched decoration, with a ball-knop finial, maker’s mark AR?, 13cm, 25gms / 0.8toz
Estimate: £200 – £400

Lot 2680: QUINTA DO NOVAL PORT VINTAGE 1978
Warre’s port vintage 1983, Taylor’s port vintage 1987, Graham’s port vintage 1977 and Gonzalez Byass & Co port vintage 1970 (6)
Estimate: £200 – £300

Lot 2689: MOUTAI KWEICHOW 2012 BAIJU 50CL
In a presentation case with two glasses, Wu Liang Ye Baijiu 500ml (2)
Estimate: £300 – £400

Lot 2690: RENAUDIN BOLLINGER EXTRA QUALITY EXTRA DRY 1952 CHAMPAGNE
By appointment to Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II
Estimate: £200 – £300

Designer Desire: Karel Lek

Karel Lek discovered his love for art as a four year old when his father would take him to museums in Antwerp where he found inspiration in Belgian artists such as Constant Permeke and James Ensor.

Lek (1929-2020) and his family fled Antwerp during WWII, arriving as Jewish refugees to North Wales in 1940 when he was still a young boy. He lived there for 17 years before he moved to Beaumaris on Anglesey.

All I ever wanted to be was a painter and coming to Wales really helped me achieve my dream.

He was educated at Friars Grammar School in Bangor and, between 1946 & 52, attended Liverpool College of Art. In 1955, Karel Lek became a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy and was awarded an MBE in 2005.

Because I am an artist, north Wales, Anglesey and Gwynedd, are my main source of inspiration.

Karel Lek exhibited across Wales and in London, Amsterdam and Chicago. His work is contained within the collections of Contemporary Art Society for Wales, National Library of Wales, University of Bangor, Oriel Ynys Môn and Kansas City Art Gallery.

When you are dead, you’re work becomes your heart and your name becomes a brand. I hope I will have left behind a legacy.

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Art UK | Ask Art | Invaluable

Auction Alert: Rogers Jones Co Welsh Sale

The Rogers Jones Co Welsh Sale takes place on Saturday 19^th November 2022, from 9am at their Cardiff site.

Of the 608 lots on offer, our favourites by far are the antique Welsh lovespoons. There’s even one example (lot #592) that’s perfect for us; it’s carved with an ‘A’ and a ‘J’… for Adelle & Justin!

Rogers Jones Co’s buyer’s premium stands at 28.8%. There will be an added fee if you bid via The Saleroom. Before bidding on any original artworks please bear in mind:

There will also be a Droit de Suite / Artist’s Resale Right charge of 4% on original artwork by EEA based artists on hammer prices of 1000 euros or over (GBP equivalent)

Lot 19: KAREL LEK limited edition (13/13) print
Seated male with pint glass and cigarette, signed in pencil
Dimensions: 33 x 26cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Condition report: framed and glazed, no problems
Estimate: £100 – £200

Lot 34: PAUL PETER PIECH limited edition (8/25) three-colour lithograph
Homage to R S Thomas, signed and dated 1993, signed
Dimensions: 53 x 44cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Condition report: framed and glazed
Estimate: £150 – £250

Lot 36: VALERIE GANZ limited edition (4/50) print
Head and shoulders study of four miners entitled ‘Leaving the Coalface’, signed
Dimensions: 18 x 38cms
Provenance: private collection South East of England
Condition report: framed and glazed, ready to hang
Estimate: £150 – £200

Lot 155: MIKE JONES mixed media, colourwash and ink
Seated gentleman with legs crossed, signed
Dimensions: 22 x 17cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Condition report: framed and glazed, no problems
Estimate: £300 – £500

Lot 468: MURIEL DELAYAHE oil on board
Two figures struggling with umbrellas, signed
Dimensions: 46 x 61cms
Provenance: private collection Ynys Mon
Condition report: framed, sl. attention required to frame, ready to hang
Estimate: £2,000 – £3,000

Lot 565: AN IMPORTANT ARTS & CRAFTS SLIPWARE POTTERY JUG BY HORACE ELLIOTT
Yellow glaze and brown slip, of baluster form tapering to a circular spreading foot, with angel wing-form handle and wide curved spout, sgraffito feathers to wing and to the body ‘Here is a mixture, of Earth and Heaven, An Angel’s wing to a pitcher given, Take hold of the wing, for a handle, pray! Or the vessel of earth may fly away’. signed at foot ‘Copyright Horace Elliott’ and at base ‘Elliott, London 1893’
Dimensions: 28cms high
Provenance: private collection Kansas City, USA
Condition report: minor losses to glaze, crazing / stress marks from use as a vase but excellent overall
Tip of feather chipped and other small chips to handle. Slip glaze faults beneath spout.
Estimate: £700 – £1,000

Lot 572: WILLIAM IV WELSH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
By Rachael John, aged 14, Narberth, December 3 1832, decorated with alphabet, numbers, four-line poem, birds, trees, house, Adam & Eve under the tree of life etc
Dimensions: 40 x 41cms
Provenance: deceased estate South Wales
Condition report: framed and glazed, faded and browned. There are some holes present, mainly around the edges. The sampler has faded and browned in colour.
Estimate: £200 – £300

Lot 591: LATE 18^TH CENTURY CARVED TREEN WELSH LOVE SPOON
Having a pointed bowl to an unusual openwork stem to the arched handle, profusely carved with opposing geometric shapes, panels and hearts and with the letters ‘N’ and ‘S’ to flank a centre spoked wheel
Dimensions: 25.5cms long
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire
Condition report: good overall, old repair and splits to decoration, small chips as one would expect
Estimate: £500 – £700

Lot 592: LARGE WELSH LOVESPOON
Early 19^th Century, pointed bowl, long-handle with dome top having geometric pierce-work carving and inlay within sgraffito-line frame and painted sgraffito initials ‘A J’
Dimensions: 35.5cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire, by descent
Condition report: small nicks to bowl tip, split in terminal
Estimate: £1,000 – £1,500

Lot 593: RARE WELSH YEW DOUBLE BOWL LOVESPOON
Late 18th Century, having pointed bowls with pierce-work handle of centre triskele (trisgel), flanking hearts and flowers, repeated piercework at terminal
Dimensions: 23cms long
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire, by descent
Condition report: restored break
Estimate: £1,500 – £2,000

Harry Charles Tim

Harry Charles Tim (b. 1956) is a fine art painter based in Stratford-on-Avon. In a past life, he was a soldier in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. After finishing his service, he immigrated to Germany, where he initially became a dealer in antiques and art before himself becoming an artist.

Tim is represented by Meander & Mooch and Montpellier Gallery. Examples of his work also appear online at auction and at Saatchi Art.

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Winter Two Day Fine Art & Antiques Auction

Designer Desire: Karel Lek

Auction Alert: Rogers Jones Co Welsh Sale

Harry Charles Tim