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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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