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TEFAF Highlights 2014 - Antiques
Julius Böhler/212
Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child
Alabaster with the original gilding and partial polychromy
27 cm high Southern Netherlandish, mid 15th century. More
information
Alessandro Cesati/186
Parade dish
Engraved brass Diameter 47 cm Venice, circa 1550
The coat-of-arms in the middle of the dish corresponds to
that of Francesco Dona, Doge of Venice from 24 November
1545 to 23 May 1553. More information
Galerie Chevalier/168
L’Offrande à Pan / The Offering to Pan
Beauvais Royal Manufactory from the Grotesques à Fond
Jaune series, design inspired by Jean Bérain (1640 - 1711),
cartoon by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (1634 -1699). Finely
woven in wool and silk. 2.68 m x 2.36 m / 8ft 9 1/2 x 7ft 9
France.
Louis XIV period, very beginning of the 18th century, circa
1700 – 1710
Cornelius Vanderbilt collection
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Deborah Elvira /267
Set of buttons and a jewel
Gold and crystal, some remains of enamel in the jewel
Jewel 4.6 x 3 cm Buttons 1 x 1 cm Spain, before 1641
Recovered from wreck of the Spanish galleon Nuestra
Señora de la Pura y Limpia Concepción.
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John Endlich/233
Jan de Wal II, Dutch silver Shabbat lamp
Silver 105 cm Leeuwarden, 1789, Jan de Wal II
Previously in the Portugese synagogue, Antwerp
There are only few silver Shabbat lamps known today. The
only other one that has six branches for candles was also
made in Leeuwarden and by Hendrik Dauw in 1783 and is
now in the Berlin Museum. More information
Les Enluminures/274
Schembart Book
In German, illustrated manuscript on paper, 64 watercolor
illustrations and 20 pen-and-ink drawings 31 x 21 cm
Nuremberg, circa 1540, with later additions
In ts original binding and with good provenance, this is not
only one of the earliest records of the costumes and floats
of the great medieval carnival at Nuremburg but it also
includes pictorial and textual references to the early
owners, members of the Kress von Kressenstein family. Most
known examples are in European library collections,
primarily in Munich and Nuremberg, and many of them are
of a later date, circa 1600. More information
Peter Finer/220
Armour for the foot tourney by the 'Master of the Castle'
Overall height (including plinth) 198 cm Milan, circa 1590-
1600
Previously owned by The Earls of Harrington, Elvaston Castle
Derbyshire and the Rothschild Collection, Château de
Ferrières-en-Brie, France. More information
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Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books AG/118
Biblia Latina-The Bible of Aulne Abbey
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, 381 leaves, 87 historiated
and 60 illuminated initials on highly burnished raised gold
grounds 27.2 x 18 cm Northern France or Southern
Netherlands, circa 1240-1250
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Thomas Heneage & Co. Ltd/810
Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori scritte
da M. Giorgio Vasari Pittore et Architetto Aretino Di nuovo
dal Medesimo Riviste Et Ampliate con i Ritratti Loro Et con
l'aggiunta delle Vite de'viui, & de'morti Dall'anno 1550 al
1567
3 parts, in 3 volumes. The second, expanded edition of the
Lives by the 'father of art history', with biographies of 28
additional, younger artists, including Titian. This was also the
first to be illustrated, incorporating woodcut portraits of
Vasari's own design. Florence, Giunti, 1568. More
information
Carlton Hobbs/271
Neo-Classical retail comptoir
Pine and composition, the replaced top of striated
limestone France, circa 1805 From a Parisian marchand de
vin
The present comptoir, or retail counter, is a remarkable
survival from the time when many of the conventions in the
modern retail environment were first developed. More
information
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Ben Janssens Oriental Art Ltd /202
Bronze ritual pouring vessel, he, in the form of a winged
animal
12 inches, 30.5 cm long 11 ½ inches, 29.2 cm high China,
Eastern Zhou, Warring States period, 475 - 221 BC
Provenance: Private collection, Europe.
This pouring vessel, he, was used in ritual ceremonies for
heating liquids such as water or beer. Although many
extant he have animalistic elements in their decorative
scheme – mostly in the spout and the handle – it is
extremely rare to find examples cast as a complete animal,
showing four legs and a winged body. It is generally
believed that this type of winged he represents the cultural
syncretism between China and Western Asia, since it
resembles the legendary half-lion, half-eagle griffin. More
information
Daniel Katz Ltd/100
Gustave Doré (1832-1883), D’Artagnan
Patinated plaster 63 x 40 x 30 cm Signed G. DORE at the
front of the base
This lively plaster is a model for the monument in bronze that
was dedicated to the celebrated novelist Alexandre
Dumas, erected in 1883 at the Place du Général Catroux,
Paris 1883. More information
Galerie Kevorkian/244
'Amlash' spouted vessel in the form of a stag
Pottery buff body with burnished surface. 30.5 x 35 cm
Southwestern Caspian region, Marlik culture, early 1st
millenium BC
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Koopman Rare Art /152
Jacques Nicolas Roettiers (1736-1788), Catherine The Great
a gift to Count Orloff a soup tureen with Cover From The
Orloff Service
Soup tureen, gift of Catherine The Great to Count Orloff
Soup Tureen on stand with cover from the Orloff service
Silver Length (bowl): 43.5 cm Length of base: 50 cm Weight:
11,960 g (384.50 oz) Paris 1770
Provenance:
Empress Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796). Given Count
Gregory Orloff (1734-1783) after 1772. Acquired by
Catherine II to the death of Count Orloff in 1784, and by
descent in the imperial collections to Nicolas II ( 1868-1918)
until 1917. More information
Koopman Rare Art /152
Paul Storr, The Gladstone dinner service
Silver London, 1824 Maker’s mark of Paul Storr Comprising,
a pair of six-light candelabra A pair of soup tureens and
covers Four oblong entrée dishes and covers on Sheffield
Plate stands Four oval entreé dishes and covers on Sheffield
Plate stands Four wine-coolers modelled on the Warwick
Vase, Two sets of four salts and spoons Four sauce tureens
and covers A pair of second course dishes A graduated set
of ten meat dishes A pair of salvers A seven-piece tea and
coffee service Total weight 3,349 oz 3 dwt (104,078 g)
HERALDRY The arms are those of Gladstone impaling
Robertson, for Sir John Gladstone (1764–1851) and his
second wife Anne MacKenzie, the daughter of Andrew
Robertson, whom he married in 1800.
Presented to Sir John Gladstone (1764–1851) on Monday,
October 18, 1824, following a public subscription raised by
the people of Liverpool Then by descent in the family until
2013
This service is incredibly rare to the market as it is the largest
surviving service by Paul Storr. More information
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Littleton & Hennessy Asian Art Ltd/269
Rare foliate rim dish decorated in white slip with relief
dragon and clouds on a cobalt-blue glaze.
40.5cm diameter Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) This previously
unknown dish is one of only three large dishes of this type
known to exist, making it extremely rare and the only one
on the market. The two other dishes are in museum
collections; one preserved in the Ardabil Shrine, now in the
National Museum of Iran, and one is in the Topkapi Saray
Museum, Istanbul.
From the estate of Waltraud Hentschel, the wife of Jack Ellis,
Member of Parliament in Ontario, Canada. By descent from
the estate of her mother, Sophia Johanne Hentschel. GBP
12,000,000. More information
Otto von Mitzlaff / 131
Maker´s mark of Gillis von Sibricht (Sibergh) Cast, chased
and etched silver-gilt cup and covered with
Renaissance ornamentation. 44.2 cm1572 g.Cologne
1570/80 Inscription in ornate Cyrillic lettering at the
upper rim: January of the year 1686: the mighty
Sovereigns, Tsars and Grand Dukes Ioann Alexeevich,
Peter Alexeevich Puissant Sovereigns of all Russia, the
Great, the Little and the White, reward with this cup the
foreign-born Osip Ulf, son of Samoil, merchant of the
land of England, he having obtained for these same
Grand Rulers, great revenue by the purchase of
potash“.Peter Alexeevich is the future Peter the Great,
Osip Ulf is the English merchant Sir Joseph Woolfe of
Hackney. More information
Galerie Perrin/104
Costantino Rinaldi (active circa 1800-1850), View of
Paestum
Micromosaic with coloured enamel Framed: 88 cm x 198
cm C. Rinaldi Rome, circa 1830
New York, Jay Gould collection; by descent Paris, Anna
Gould collection; by descent Paris, Violette de Pourtalès de
Talleyrand, duchesse de Sagan collection; Paris, Galerie
Perrin. More information
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Piva & C srl/179
Santi Casarini (active in Venice, late 17th century), Pair of
over life-size busts of moors
Coloured marbles on white bases 100.5 cm and 93 cm high
Female figure signed on the front: “SANTI CASARINI F.”
Venice, late 17th century
Formerly Luchino Visconti di Modrone collecion, Rome More
information
Rossi & Rossi/166
Vajradhâtu màndala
Distemper on cotton 125 x 125 cm (49 ¼ x 49 ¼ in) Tibet,
11th century
Private collection Europe, acquired 1980s
This màndala represents possibly the earliest extant painted
rendition of Buddhist symbolism and Indian conceptions, as
well as aesthetics, proposed by the tantras describing the
various màndalas, and imposed by the iconography and
iconometric rules laid down in the Sanskrit texts translated
into Tibetan, especially in the 8th-9th and 11th-14th
centuries, and included in the Buddhist canon found in most
monasteries of geo-cultural Tibet. More information
Adrian Sassoon/264
Giovanni Corvaja, Handkerchief
18 & 22ct gold 24.5cm / 9 5/8" x 24.5cm / 9 5/8" Todi,
Umbria, 2009-2010
Giovanni Corvaja is famed for his unique ability to turn solid
gold into fine thread with tactile qualities akin to fur or silk.
Honing his skill at this process has required years of research
and practice. There is no other artist working in this way
today. Warp: 18ct yellow gold Weft: 22ct red gold Woven
entirely from gold. Each thread is composed of 291 wires of
gold braided together with each wire 7 microns in
diameter. Total of 110 km of wire. 1,500 hours working time.
More information
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Shapero Rare Books/230
Jean Theodore Descourtilz, Ornithologie Bresilienne ou
Histoire des oiseaux du Bresil
First edition. Large folio, with 48 chromolithographic plates
finished by hand. Bound in contemporary half green
morocco over marbled boards. Rio de Janeiro, 1854.
Known also as ‘The Great Bird Book of Brazil’, this rare first
edition contains descriptions and figures of 164 species of
Brazilian birds, including 15 new species and a new genus'
(Zimmer). It is considered to be the finest record of Brazilian
birds published during the nineteenth century. More
information
Somlo Antiques/157
Waltham, Presidential presentation pocket watch
18ct yellow gold, 23 Jewel ‘Riverside Maximus’ Hunter case
pocket watch. Massachusetts, 1919 This is the highest
grade movement Waltham ever produced. The company
survived the American Civil War by producing military
watches. It is reputed that Abraham Lincoln himself carried
a Waltham pocket watch.
Historically, few workplaces are more dangerous than the
sea. In the spirit of gratitude, Presidents in the 19th and 20th
Century, typically upon the recommendation of the
Secretary of State, would officially recognize foreigners that
through an extraordinary act of courage saved the life of
an American at sea. According to the National Archives,
the reward was a gold pocket watch, a gift on behalf of a
grateful nation. This gold Waltham pocket watch on display
was presented to the Captain of the Tug-Boat ‘Champion’,
Henry William Webster, by President Thomas Woodrow
Wilson for his assitance to the US vessel ‘Piave’. More
information
Heribert Tenschert Antiquariat Bibermuhle
AG/216
Master of Margriet Uitenham. Book of Hours of Margriet
Uitenham
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Illuminated manuscript on vellum in a Dutch 17th century
morocco binding, heavily gilt in the “drawer handle” style.
18.2 x 12.8 cm Eastern Netherlands (Arnheim?), circa 1460.
This manuscript, textually one of the most elaborate Dutch
Books of Hours known, is extraordinary in more than one
aspects. But the most remarkable of these is the fact that it
contains more than 80 thickly illuminated pages with
borders of solid gold leaf on three or all four margins of the
page, thus constituting one of the richest Dutch manuscripts
known, comparable only with the Hours of Sophia of Bylant,
in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, which was also
illuminated by the Uitenham Master, but illustrated by the
Master of the Bartholomew altar-piece. More information
Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz /273
Joseph Dufour, Banks of the Bosphorus scenic panoramique
1400 cm wide 210 cm high (W: 32’. H : 6’9’’ ) France,
1812.
English Private Collection. More information
Grace Tsumugi Fine Art/263
Gold lacquer cabinet with the first warbler
Worked in gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, nashij,
and kirikane and with details inlaid in gold, silver, and coral
with a design based on Chapter 23, ‘Hatsune (The First
Warbler)’, of Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji). 25 × 27.5
× 19 cm Japan, Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1830
The design of this cabinet is based on the Hatsune no
Chōdo, a celebrated set of wedding lacquers completed
in 1639. More information
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Jorge Welsh Oriental Porcelain & Works of
Art/210
Spaniel-shaped tureen and cover
Porcelain decorated in overglaze polychrome enamels and
gold 17 x 15 x 13.5 cm Qing dynasty, Qianlong period
(1736-1795) China
Although Chinese porcelain models of spaniels, pugs and
hounds were regular forms for the export market, tureens in
the shape of dogs are extremely rare. More information
Yufuku Gallery/270
Niyoko Ikuta, Ku-18 (Free Essence 18)
Laminated sheet glass 34 × 38 × 28 cm Signed, Japan,
2012. More information