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AUCTION Round up AROUND the HOUSES Coming out of lockdown, recent sales – including a 1950s puppet and a pinball machine – have a distinctly light-hearted feel The fairground attraction, still in working order, was a sale highlight The painting went to an American private collector NICHOLSON’S, FERNHURST A painting by the French artist Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) sold for £21,600 at the Sussex auctioneers, more than double its low estimate of £10,000. Titled Figure Walking on a Tree Lined Country Road, the signed oil on canvas, which measure 50 x 61cm (19¾ x 24in), was inscribed on the back Andre Breton, Amicalement, Vlaminck. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, De Vlaminck is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who, from 1904 to 1908, were united in their use of intense colour. VICTOR MEE, DUBLIN An eclectic selection of pieces including pub fittings and advertising memorabilia sold for above their estimates at the Irish auctioneer’s sale marking the retirement of local dealer VICTOR MEE, DUBLIN An eclectic selection of pieces including pub fittings and advertising memorabilia sold for above their estimates at the Irish auctioneer’s sale marking the retirement of local dealer Gerard Derry. A hand-painted optician’s shop sign with its original bracket doubled its low estimate to fetch €540, while a 2m sun burst wall feature, expected to make up to €200 hammered at €1,500. But pride of place in the online sale, which recorded 1,500 Sight for sore eyes: the optician’s sign made €540 bidders, was a rare 19th-century, hand-operated fairground carousel in working order. The attraction, which came with 18 hand-carved and painted horses and two swing boats, fetched a mid-estimate €14,500. CANTER A determine £40,000 for seen online which recor CANTERBURY AUCTION GALLERIES A determined collector outbid seven dealers to pay £40,000 for a pair of small Blue John vases she’d only seen online at the Kent auction house’s recent sale, which recorded 1,600 online customers. The Geo £15,000-£25 entrepreneu The George III ormolu-mounted vases, estimated at £15,000-£25,000, were designed by the engineer and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809). Designed holders or c incense – th Designed with reversible covers to double as candle holders or cassolettes – a vessel to hold perfume or incense – the pair, which were standing 20cm-21.5cm (7.5in-8.5in) high, were decorated with ormolu acanthus swags and leaf-capped loop handles above ram’s heads. 12 ANTIQUE COLLECTING The decorative wall piece made 15 times its low estimate The sought-after vases came from the Kent home of a deceased London dealer
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DIX NOONAN WEBB, MAYFAIR A silver dressing table pot once belonging to the French actress Sarah Bernhardt (18441923) sold for £3,968, against an estimate of £150-£200, at the London auction house’s recent sale. It was one of six pieces consigned by Sarah Bernhardt’s great-great granddaughter, Michele Gross, who lives in the UK. The highest price was for a locket which contained a lock of hair from Bernhardt’s son. The table pot was monogrammed by the famous French actress HALLS, SHREWSBURY A rare, early motorised bicycle sold for £3,200 against a low estimate of £800 at the Shropshire auctioneers. The 1902, 142cc Clément model B.B, stamped B.Bte SGDG, was fitted with a Bates saddle and had wheels of differing diameters. Clément Cycles or La Société des Vélocipédes Clément was a French bicycle manufacturer founded as a bicycle repair shop by the former racer Clément-Bayard. Clément Cycles pioneered the motorised bicycle The bowl was once owned by Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) WOOLLEY AND WALLIS, SALISBURY A 17th-century Venetianfooted bowl, made at the silica chalcedony, which once belonged to the Rothschild family, made 10 times its estimate to hammer for £3,000 at the Wiltshire auction house’s recent sale. The bowl’s provenance dated back to Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) and came from Exbury House in Hampshire. The intricate glass came from the same sale of pieces from Exbury House A late 17th-century winged goblet, from either Venice or the Low Countries, sold for £8,500 against an estimate of £600-£800 from the same collection. CATHERINE SOUTHON, BROMLEY A Welsh Ewenny pottery glazed earthenware figure of a parrot incised in Welsh Polly Fach Bert (Little Pretty Polly), sold for £850, more than eight times its low estimate of £100 at the Kent auction house’s online sale. The pottery was founded in 1610, making it one of the oldest in Wales. The bird was marked Jones Bridgend after Evan Jones, one of its best-known makers. An art deco 1930s penny slot game in an oak case made close to its top estimate, selling for £650 at the same sale. The parrot was inscribed in Welsh Polly FachBert The eye-catching ‘Playball’ pinball game had a penny slot The desk set a record for the mid-century Milanese architect/ PHILLIPS, LONDON DESIGN A desk by Milanese architect and designer Mario Gottardi, sold for £91,250, setting a record and smashing pre-sale hopes of £10,000£15,000. The rare, 1945 executive desk, made from walnutveneered wood, walnut, glass and brass, had been designed for a lawyer’s office in Turin. The previous auction record for one of his pieces was in 2019 when a daybed sold for $9,500 in Italy. designer Three nesting tables by the Swiss artist Jean Dunand (1877–1942), one of the few Western artists to master the technique of lacquer, sold for £200,000 against an estimate of £120,000-£150,000. Dunand is widely considered to be one of the leading Western exponents of lacquer ANTIQUE COLLECTING 13

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AUCTION Round up

AROUND the HOUSES

Coming out of lockdown, recent sales

– including a 1950s puppet and a pinball machine – have a distinctly light-hearted feel

The fairground attraction, still in working order, was a sale highlight

The painting went to an American private collector

NICHOLSON’S, FERNHURST A painting by the French artist Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) sold for £21,600 at the Sussex auctioneers, more than double its low estimate of £10,000.

Titled Figure Walking on a Tree Lined Country Road, the signed oil on canvas, which measure 50 x 61cm (19¾ x 24in), was inscribed on the back Andre Breton, Amicalement, Vlaminck.

Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, De Vlaminck is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who, from 1904 to 1908, were united in their use of intense colour.

VICTOR MEE, DUBLIN An eclectic selection of pieces including pub fittings and advertising memorabilia sold for above their estimates at the Irish auctioneer’s sale marking the retirement of local dealer

VICTOR MEE, DUBLIN An eclectic selection of pieces including pub fittings and advertising memorabilia sold for above their estimates at the Irish auctioneer’s sale marking the retirement of local dealer Gerard Derry.

A hand-painted optician’s shop sign with its original bracket doubled its low estimate to fetch €540, while a 2m sun burst wall feature, expected to make up to €200 hammered at €1,500.

But pride of place in the online sale, which recorded 1,500

Sight for sore eyes: the optician’s sign made €540

bidders, was a rare 19th-century, hand-operated fairground carousel in working order. The attraction, which came with 18 hand-carved and painted horses and two swing boats, fetched a mid-estimate €14,500.

CANTER A determine £40,000 for seen online which recor

CANTERBURY AUCTION GALLERIES A determined collector outbid seven dealers to pay £40,000 for a pair of small Blue John vases she’d only seen online at the Kent auction house’s recent sale, which recorded 1,600 online customers.

The Geo £15,000-£25 entrepreneu

The George III ormolu-mounted vases, estimated at £15,000-£25,000, were designed by the engineer and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809).

Designed holders or c incense – th

Designed with reversible covers to double as candle holders or cassolettes – a vessel to hold perfume or incense – the pair, which were standing 20cm-21.5cm (7.5in-8.5in) high, were decorated with ormolu acanthus swags and leaf-capped loop handles above ram’s heads.

12 ANTIQUE COLLECTING

The decorative wall piece made 15 times its low estimate

The sought-after vases came from the Kent home of a deceased London dealer

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