Bidding was brisk with a crowded salesroom, constantly engaged telephone lines and plenty of commission bids.
Our clocks category did exceptionally well with Lot 816 a
Goldsmiths Co, Newcastle Upon Tyne Large 8 Day Striking selling for £3100
almost double its high estimate. Lot 818
J Smith, York 8 Day Striking Longcase Clock sold for just over a thousand
pounds.
Garnering lots of attention was Lot
777, a Blue John and gilt metal bulbous table lamp bringing in inquiries and
commission bids from far afield. Blue
John, a semi-precious mineral, is a form of fluorite with bands of purple-blue
and/or yellow. Objects made from Blue
John were popular in the Victorian era and still sought after today with this
item selling for £2400. Another lighting
fixture, an Arts and Crafts copper chandelier was also the object of pretty
intense bidding—Lot 793 was a four-light chandelier with opaque glass trumpet
shades selling for £780.
In furniture A Victorian Burr
Walnut Piano Topped Davenport, an excellent specimen of a traditional antique,
went for £840 and a Victorian burr walnut Canterbury whatnot sold for
£360. But showing the increasing
importance of mid-twentieth century design was a Corbusier tan leather and
steel sofa sought after by several bidders and finally selling for £500.
Two embroidered panels of birds
demonstrated the continuing popularity of Asian decorative items to the
market. Lot 714 was a pair of Oriental silk
panels depicting stalks, fruit, floral, bat and tree decorations, both mounted
in gilt frames, sold for £640. Lots 744
and 745, two decorative fans sold for £390 and £360 respectively.
Despite damage and evidence of
earlier repairs Lot 61, an absolutely charming 19th century Meissen
figure of a seated dog, sold for £330.
An unusual item Lot 686, a box
filled with microscope slides, also caught the crowd’s attention and sold for
£440.
For a complete list of realised
prices check our website.
There were nearly 900 items in
October’s auction and less than a week later our office is filling up again
with things for December 6’s auction.
Staff are busy sending out items purchased and cataloguing new
items. We’re also adding things to our
online shop all the time. For continuing
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