Johannesburg August Auction - Digital Catalogue

Johannesburg | 26 & 27 August 2019



Auction

Johannesburg | 26 & 27 August 2019

The Killarney Country Club
60 5th Street | Houghton Estate | Johannesburg

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Content

Fine Art & Design Auction

Johannesburg | 26 & 27 August 2019

The Killarney Country Club
60 5th Street | Houghton Estate | Johannesburg

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This catalogue may be referred to as (SA1909) - CHARLIE

COVER INSIDE FRONT COVER INSIDE BACK COVER BACK COVER

Anton van Wouw Walter Whall Battiss A WARD’S IMPROVED ESIAS BOSCH (SOUTH AFRICAN
(South African 1862 - 1945) (South African 1906 - 1982) RECUMBENT CHAIR, 1923-2010): A PAINTED AND
DE VOGELAAR FRUIT AND FLOWER LONDON 1880-1900 GLAZED CERAMIC TILE
Lot 164 SELLERS, GRANDE COMORO Lot 112 Lot 80
Lot 176

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Auction Details 2
Who We Are 4
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Dear Collector 6
Specialists & Services 8
Previous Auction Highlights 11
Bidding at our Auctions 12
13
Cataloguing Terms
Purchasing at Our Auctions

Session 1 14
Monday | 26 August | 10am 36
62
Lots 1 - 70 118
Carpets, Rugs & Runners | Books

Session 2
Monday | 26 August | 2pm

Lots 71 - 130
Decorative Art | Furniture

Session 3
Monday | 26 August | 7pm

Lots 131 - 210
Collectable Cars | Fine Art

Session 4
Tuesday | 27 August | 10am

Lots 211 - 361
Pocket & Wristwatches, Jewellery, Handbags

Important Notice to Prospective Buyers 162
Absentee and Telephone Bidders Form 163
Guide for Absentee/Telephone Bidders 164
General Information Johannesburg, Cape Town & Pretoria 169
175
Catalogue Subscription Order Form 176
Important Announcements 177
178
Payment and Despatch of Purchases 184
Terms & Conditions of Business and Rules of Auction

Artist Index

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Who we are

Founded in 1968, Stephan Welz & Co. has entrenched itself at the forefront of the South African
auction industry for the past 50 years. With salerooms in Johannesburg and Cape Town, we offer
a convenient way to consign and auction your valuables. We are the most experienced auction
house in Africa, making us the premium choice when looking to achieve the best prices on your
collectables.

Specialising in a variety of departments including fine art, silverware, furniture and classic cars,
we have consigned nearly 325 000 items in over 700 auctions. Our wide range of categories
also includes watches, jewellery, clocks, carpets, decorative arts, books, maps and coins. We have
specialists nationwide to consign your items to our auctions. We continue to uphold our integrity
with our clients and assist them through the thrilling world of auctions.

Corporate & Museum House Visits Trusts & Estates
Collections Our specialists can travel We offer advice regarding
Our specialists offer personal to your home to value your personal property assets
and professional assistance items. We strive to make to trusts, estates, and
and advice to both corporate every auction experience as private clients in order to
clients and museum services enjoyable and convenient as assist fiduciaries, executors,
in areas including appraisal possible. advisors and collectors.
reports, deacessions and
acquisitions. We are available
to travel throughout South
Africa to value these
collections.

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Dear Collector

Working in the auction world offers many rare pleasures and privileges,
none more so than encountering objects and artworks that one has only
ever seen in books, or never thought to come across. We are very proud
to be able to offer some of these hidden treasures to our collectors.

Leading these works is Anton van Wouw’s earliest known sculpture in
South Africa: De Vogelaar. This work is one of six thought to exist, and it
is extremely rare for this work to appear on auction. As an early example
of the artist’s nascent abilities this work provides us view of van Wouw’s
early artistic footsteps in Holland as he grew in confidence and abilities.

Walter Battiss’s Fruit and Flower Sellers, Grande Comoro, is another
case of a luminous work that has remained cherished, but out of sight,
for decades. This work showcases many elements of Battiss’s work in
its prime – the layering of rich colours with a palette knife, the ‘etched’
sgraffito, the African locale recorded and reimagined through the artist’s
inimitable vision.

Esias Bosch’s large shimmering wall tile highlights our Decorative Arts
department. Created with ceramic stains mixed with china clay and
various frits under a clear glaze, the tile was fired multiple times in a
kiln custom-made by the artist to handle the scale of works that he was
creating. It is a spectacular example of the artist’s large-scale works.

Between 1880 and 1900 John Ward manufactured his Improved
Recumbent Chair in Tottenham Court Road, London. We are proud
to offer such a unique object in our Furniture department. Ward had
previously exhibited his original Recumbent Chair at the Great Exhibition
of 1851, and over the years refined his design into this current model.
With its movable arms, leg-rests and recumbent back, the chair – which
could be converted into a day bed – was hailed as an ingenious object for
recovering patients, invalids and the frail. Very few remain in existence.

Accompanying an appealing range of
elegant tennis bracelets we are delighted
to offer a highly sought-after Rolex
Submariner. With a waiting list that runs
into years for new models, and the rarity
of vintage models on the secondary
market, this is sure to pique in the interest
of any discerning watch collector.

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Specialists
& Services

Johannesburg

General Enquiries Laurence Friedman Luke Crossley

+27 (11) 880 3125 General Manager, Jewellery, Silverware Office Manager, Fine Art
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
The Killarney Country Club
60 5th Street Nicolette Barnard Alexia Ferreria
Houghton Estate
Johannesburg Furniture, Decorative Arts, Glass & Ceramics Fine Art
2198 [email protected] [email protected]

Leona Venter Amy Carrington

Marketing & Administrator Fine Art
[email protected] [email protected]

Robin Ford Johannes Moriti

Accountant Logistics
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Laurie Sher

Administration & Shipping
[email protected]

Consultants

Doron Locketz

Books, Manuscripts & Maps
[email protected]

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Cape Town Anton Welz Kate Smith

General Enquiries Auctioneer, Furniture, Fine Art, Office Manager
Collectable Cars, Jewellery, [email protected]
+27 (21) 794 6461 Collectors’ Items, African Art, Silverware
[email protected] Linda Kessler
[email protected]
Suzanne Duncan Office Administrator
Silvermist Wine Estate [email protected]
Main Road Fine Art
Constantia Nek [email protected]
Cape Town
7806

Consultants Lani Roux

Rayda Becker Books, Manuscripts & Maps
[email protected]
African Art
[email protected] Ainsley Taylor

Carol Kaufmann Decorative Arts, Glass & Ceramics
[email protected]
Fine Art
[email protected]

Johan Joubert

Oriental Decorative Arts
[email protected]

Pretoria

General Enquiries Lukas Nel

+27 (12) 010 0121 Production & Marketing
[email protected] [email protected]
Association of Arts Pretoria
173 Mackie Street
Nieuw Muckleneuk
Pretoria
0181

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Previous Auction
Highlights

Johannesburg April 2019 Cape Town July 2019
William Kentridge Lady Anne Barnard
Thinking Aloud, Small Thoughts Black Madonna
Sold for R 262 200 Sold for R 301 860

8 Cape Town July 2019
A Victorian cased enamel and
gem-set serpent bracelet
Sold for R 87 075

Cape Town July 2019
A Cape Stinkwood Neoclassical
Split Splat Bench

Sold for R 23 220

Cape Town July 2019
Esias Bosch (South African 1923-2010):
A Painted and Glazed Ceramic Tile

Sold for R 754 650

Cape Town February 2019
A Gentleman’s 22ct Gold
Skeleton Wristwatch,
Patek Philippe
Sold R 348 300

Johannesburg April 2019
Alexis Preller
Seychelles Girl
Sold R 1 219 050

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Session 1

Monday | 26 August | 10am

Lots 1 - 70
Carpets, Rugs & Runners

Books & Maps

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1 2 3
A CAUCASIAN PRAYER RUG
1 AN ISFAHAN PRAYER RUG, IRAN 143 by 106cm
AN ISFAHAN CARPET 240 by 150cm R 3 000 - R 4 000
155 by 105cm No fringe on silk
R 8 000 - R 10 000
R 30 000 - R 35 000
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A SUMAK KELIM CARPET, MODERN
180 by 122cm
R 3 000 - R 4 000
5
A SENNEH KELIM
415 by 177cm
R 7 000 - R 9 000
6
A SHERVAN RUG, CAUCASUS
175 by 98cm
R 7 000 - R 10 000

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Carpets, Rugs & Runners | 17

8 8
A SILK QUM, CIRCA 1970
7 174 by 113cm
A SILK HERIZ RUG R 6 000 - R 8 000
190 by 130cm
R 30 000 - R 50 000

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9 10

9 10
A SILK QUM, CIRCA 1970 A SILK AND METAL HEREKE
200 by 141cm 160 by 112cm
R 10 000 - R 15 000 R 15 000 - R 20 000

NO LOTS 11 -20

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21 22 23

Doyle, Arthur Conan Greenwall, Ryno Van Lingen, Gail

THE GREAT BOER WAR ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS OF THE BATTLEFIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA
ANGLO-BOER WAR
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900 Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Press and Times
Vlaeberg: Fernwood Press, 1992 Media Limited, 1991
8vo, x + 552pp. + 12pp. advertisements.
Original cloth binding, with 5 fold-out maps. 4to, 264pp, Three quarter leather binding in a COLLECTOR’S DE LUXE LIMITED EDITION
Small stain and small chip to front board. slip-case, Collectors’ Limited Edition, limited OF 250 COPIES, of which this is no. 5. SIGNED
Light rubbing to boards. Light sunning/ to 100 copies. This volume is number 41. BY ARTIST. Large 8vo, landscape format,
discolouration to top edges of boards and Colour frontispiece, illustrations in black and 144pp. limited edition. Original quarter leather
to spine. Light chipping to top and tail of white and 200 illustrations in colour. Parts 1 binding with marbled boards. With slipcase.
spine. Previous seller’s label fixed to front to 4 provide a general overview of the main Includes review from Financial Mail magazine,
pastedown. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his Anglo-Boer War art - ranging from illustrated original purchase invoice and publisher’s
bookplate fixed to front free endpaper. Crack newspapers and magazines to postcards, promotional booklet of this title with order
to gutter between front free endpaper and postal covers, souvenir publications and form loosely inserted. Light rubbing and slight
flyleaf, and some foxing to front free endpaper works produced by prisoners of war. Part 5 sunning to the slipcase. Previous owner’s small
and flyleaf. Previous owner’s signature to half comprised biographies of over 1100 Anglo- bookplate fixed to bottom edge of front free
title page. Small crack to gutter between the Boer war artists. Light wear on the top/ endpaper.
rear free endpaper and pastedown, and some bottom slip-case. Internally clean, as new.
foxing to rear free endpaper. Small chip to rear R 1 600 - R 2 000
free endpaper. Pages have been cut. R 1 200 - R 1 600

R 600 - R 900

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24 25 26

Rae, Rev. Colin Batts, H.J. Surgeon, E. C. H.

MALABACH, OR NOTES FROM MY DIARY ON PRETORIA FROM WITHIN: DURING THE WAR TWO YEARS CAPTIVITY IN GERMAN EAST

THE BOER CAMPAIGN OF 1894 1899-1900 AFRICA

London: Samson Low, Marston and London: John F. Shaw and Co. (Undated) London: Hutchinson & Co. (Undated)
Company Limited, 1898
8vo, vi + 231pp. Original cloth binding. 8vo, 239pp. + 16 pp. advertisements.
8vo, xvi + 248pp. Original cloth binding. With 10 plates and frontispiece. Boards slightly Original cloth binding, with frontispiece map.
53 plates and fold-out map. Light rubbing bowed and with light rubbing. Subscription Light bumps to edges of front board, with
and edgewear to the boards, with small stains slip pasted to front board. Small bump to small indentation towards bottom edge. Small
to front board. Chipping to gutter between bottom edge of rear board. Small stains to stains and sunning/discolouration to spine.
front pastedown and free endpaper. Previous spine. Very small tears to gutter between Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate and
owner’s signature. Ex libris Peter Stiff with front pastedown and free endpaper. Ex libris some chipping to front pastedown. Front free
his bookplate to front free endpaper. Light Peter Stiff with his bookplate fixed to front endpaper has been cut out. Number stamped
foxing to several pages, and light foxing to free endpaper. Numbers stamped to half title to rear of full title page and subsequently
map. Small amount of water staining to the page and verso of frontispiece. Small tears crossed out with ink. Very light foxing to
fore edges of the pages. Chipping to gutter to gutter between rear free endpaper. Small several pages. Stamp to rear free endpaper.
between rear free endpaper and pastedown. chips to rear pastedown and edge of rear free
Pages have been cut. endpaper. Very light foxing to a few pages. R 800 - R 1 000

R 400 - R 600 R 500 - R 800

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Spies, Prof. F. J. du T. Desmore, A. J. B. Whittall, W. Lt-Cdr.

ANGOLA: OPERASIE SAVANNAH 1975-1976 WITH THE 2ND CAPE CORPS THRO’ WITH BOTHA AND SMUTS IN AFRICA
CENTRAL AFRICA
Pretoria: S. A. Weermag, 1989 London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1917
Cape Town: Citadel Press, 1920
Large 8vo, xvii + 348pp. Original binding with 8vo, vi + 279pp. Original cloth binding, with
dust jacket. With 55 photos and 29 maps. 8vo, 100pp. Original cloth binding. With 2 plates and 2 maps. Light rubbing and
Light rubbing and edgewear to the dust 10 plates and photograph of author. Some edgewear to the boards. Chipping to top
jacket, with a small tear to top edge of rear rubbing, staining and sunning/discolouration and tail of spine. Small chips to edge of spine
and light chipping to top of spine of dust to the boards. Some edgewear and small along front board. Small sticker and previous
jacket. Front board is very slightly bowed bumps to the corners of the boards. Sunning/ owner’s signature, which has been erased,
upward. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate discolouration to the spine. Light chipping to to front pastedown. Ex libris Peter Stiff with
to verso of front free endpaper. Small mark in top and tail of spine. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate and small stain to front free
pen to p. 314. Very light stain to top edge of his bookplate fixed to front pastedown. Light endpaper. Previous owner’s name stamp to full
textblock, and small instance of foxing to fore rubbing to a few pages at the front of book. title page. Frontispiece slightly coming loose
edge of textblock. Staining to fore edge of textblock, with small from full title page. Cracks to gutters between
stains to edges of pages. Light foxing to edges pp. 32 and 33, pp. 48 and 49 and last page
R 700 - R 1 000 of textblock. and rear free endpaper. Previous owner name
stamp to p. 99 and to rear free endpaper.
R 1 200 - R 1 500
R 400 - R 600

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30 31 32

Lucas, Capt. Thomas J. Theal, George McCall Harris, Captain W. Cornwallis

CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA: HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA, 11 VOLS PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD
EXPERIENCES OF KAFFIR WARFARE WITH ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
THE CAPE MOUNTED RIFLES Cape Town: C. Struik, 1964
Mazoe, Rhodesia: Frank Read Press, 1976
London: Chapman and Hall, 1878 8vo, Vol. 1: xx + 466pp., Vol. 2: xxi + 545pp.,
Vol. 3: xviii + 504pp., Vol. 4: xiv + 514pp., Vol. LIMITED EDITION HAND-MADE FACSIMILIE
First Edition, 8vo, xiii + 258pp. + 32pp. 5: xix + 510pp., Vol. 6: xvi + 506pp., Vol. 7, xvi, REPRINT OF 550 COPIES, of which this is no.
advertisement. Original cloth binding with 496pp., Vol. 8: xx, 500pp. Vol. 9: viii + 462pp., 81. SIGNED BY PUBLISHER. Large fo, xxxiv +
new endpapers. 3 plates and frontispiece. Vol. 10: xvi + 352, Vol. 11: xi + 311pp. Original vi + 175pp. Original quarter leather binding.
Rubbing to boards and spine. Edgewear to bindings. All volumes have Ex libris Peter Stiff With 30 colour plates and frontispiece. Also
boards and top and tail of spine. Scuff marks with his bookplates to front free endpapers. includes original purchase invoice, loosely
to rear board. Small stain to front board. Vol 5. Missing maps I and III, Vol. 6: Small inserted. Rubbing, stains and edgewear to the
Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate fixed to bump to top corner of front board. Very light boards. Stains to the edges of the textblock.
front free endpaper. Light foxing to verso of creasing to bottom corners of pages. Insect damage to the front pastedown
frontispiece. Creases to top corners of several Vol. 7: Small bump to bottom corner of front and front free endpaper. Previous owner’s
pages. Small tears to top corners of several board which has also affected the bottom bookplate fixed to front free endpaper. Some
pages towards edge with gutter between corners of the pages. Vol. 8 missing map XIV. insect damage and light wrinkling to bottom
pp. 115-238. Vol. 9: Rear board slightly bowed with some edges of the first few pages.
creasing to board and rear free endpaper.
R 600 - R 900 Vol. 10 is missing map. R 3 000 - R 5 000

R 2 000 - R 3 000

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35 34 35

33 Crawford, Dan 35

Angas, G. F BACK TO THE LONG GRASS: MY LINK WITH Tuckey, Captain J. K.
LIVINGSTONE
THE KAFIRS ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., Undated EXPLORE THE RIVER ZAIRE
Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1974
8vo, 373pp. Original cloth binding, with 33 London: John Murray, 1818
LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILIE REPRINT OF plates and 3 maps. Light rubbing, staining and
ORIGINAL 1849 EDITION. Limited edition of edgewear to the boards. Tears to the spine, First Edition, Large 8vo, lxxxii + 498pp. Full
950 numbered copies, of which this is no. with torn section re-affixed, but with tears leather binding, with marbled endpapers and
299. Large fo, viii + 133pp. Original binding, visible. Chipping to top of spine. Small marks textblock edges, and 14 plates and fold-out
with 30 colour plates and 11 wood engravings. in pen to front pastedown and endpaper. Ex map. 5 raised bands. Light scuff marks to the
Very light rubbing to the boards. Small bumps libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate fixed to boards, and some edgewear to the corners of
to the top and tail of spine. Ex libris Peter front pastedown. Offsetting to front and rear the boards. Light chipping to the title on the
Stiff with his bookplate fixed to front free free endpapers. Light foxing to edges of the spine. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate
endpaper. textblock, which occasionally affect the edges fixed to front flyleaf. Small tear to fold-out
of a few pages. map. Light foxing throughout.
R 1 500 - R 2 000
R 300 - R 500 R 4 000 - R 5 000

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36 37 38

Schreiner, Olive Burnham, Maj. F. R. Various

STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM SCOUTING ON TWO CONTINENTS CONGO COUNTRY ENGRAVINGS OF VIEWS,
NATIVE CUSTOMS ETC 1740-1760
London: Chapman and Hall, 1890 Los Angeles: Ivan Deach, Jr., 1934
(Publishers not Indicated)
8vo, xv + 296pp. + 8pp. advertisements. 8vo, xxii + 370pp. Original cloth binding. 24
Original cloth binding. Light rubbing and plates and frontispiece. Small stain to front 4to, Portfolio, bound in maroon boards.
edgewear to the boards. Small bump to the board. Small bump towards tail of spine. Small Unnumbered pages, 3 maps and 22 plates
top edge of front board. Light chipping to the sticker to front pastedown. Ex libris Peter Stiff pasted onto the blank pages of the portfolio,
top and tail of spine. Some offsetting and Ex with his bookplate, previous owner’s name plates from various sources including
libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate to front sticker and previous owner’s signature to John Green, Charles Theodore Middleton,
free endpaper. Some offsetting to rear free front free endpaper. Crack to gutter between George Henry Millar, Peter Kolben and
endpaper. Small crack to gutter between rear frontispiece and full title page. Folded typed Theodor De Bry. Some wear on the front/
free endpaper and pastedown. Small chip to letter pasted to dedication page, which has back boards and along the edges of the
top edge of title page. Pages have been cut, left some wrinkling to the page. Cracks to portfolio, also a small stain mark can be seen
except for the advertisement pages at rear gutters between contents page and verso on the top/front board. Maps/plates are clear,
of book. Light creasing to the top corners of page and pp. 10 and 11, and pp. 354 and 355. internally clean.
title page and first few pages. Light foxing
throughout. R 300 - R 500 R 3 000 - R 5 000

R 300 - R 500

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39 40 41

Baines, Thomas Conder, Josiah Angas, G. F

THE VICTORIA FALLS ZAMBEZI RIVER THE MODERN TRAVELLER THE KAFIRS ILLUSTRATED
SKETCHED ON THE SPOT (3 VOLUMES ON AFRICA)
Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1974
Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1969 London: James Duncan, 1830
LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILIE REPRINT OF
Fo, v + 8pp. + 28pp. Original cloth binding 16mo, Vol. 1: iv + 374pp., Vol. 2: iv + 248pp., ORIGINAL 1849 EDITION. Limited edition of
with gilt lettering to front board. With author’s Vol. 3: v + 232pp. Quarter leather bindings and 950 numbered copies, of which this is no.
photograph and 11 plates. In cardboard marbled edges, with 7 plates and 1 fold-out 910. Large fo, viii + 133pp. Original binding,
case. Light stains to rear board. Very light map. Vol.1: Light scuff marks to the spine. Ex with 30 colour plates and 11 wood engravings.
foxing to front and rear pastedowns and libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate to front Very light rubbing to the boards. Small bumps
free endpapers. Ex libris Peter Stiff with pastedown. Small cracks towards tops of to the top and tail of spine. Ex libris Peter
his bookplate fixed to front free endpaper. gutters between front free endpaper and first Stiff with his bookplate fixed to front free
Cardboard case has rubbing and chipping, page. Vol. 2: Light chipping to the tail of spine. endpaper.
with inside corners repaired with adhesive Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate to front
tape. Foxing to the inside of case. free endpaper. Vol. 3: Small tear between R 2 000 - R 3 000
rear board and tail of spine. Light insect
R 1 200 - R 1 500 damage to edges of spine facing the boards.
Insect damage to gutters between front
and rear pastedowns and free endpapers.
Light creasing to last free pages and rear
free endpaper. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his
bookplate to front free endpaper.

R 1 500 - R 2 000

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Thompson, George Campbell, Rev. John

TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA, UNDERTAKEN AT THE
AFRICA, 2 VOLS REQUEST... (SECOND JOURNEY) 2 VOLS.

London: Henry Colburn, 1827 London: Francis Westley, 1822

Second Edition, 8vo, Vol. 1: xvi + 450pp., Vol. First Edition, 8vo, Vol. 1: viii + 322, Vol. 2: xii + 384 + 1 page
2: vi + 430pp. + 2pp. advertisements. Quarter advertisement. Quarter leather binding. With 2 colour
leather bindings with fold-out pages and frontispieces, 10 additional colour plates and 1 folding map.
illustrations. Vol. 1: Rubbing and edgewear Vol. 1: Light rubbing and edgewear to boards. Some chipping
to the boards. Light chipping to edges of to the spine. Small crack to gutter between front pastedown
boards. Small section of title on spine has and front free endpaper. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his
chipped. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate bookplate to front free endpaper. Light foxing to first and last
to front flyleaf. Previous owner’s signature to few pages and several other pages. Some offsetting to pages
title page. Very light foxing to several pages. facing the plates. Light foxing to map, and several of the folds
Crack to gutter between rear flyleaves. Vol. 2: have been repaired. Vol. 2: Light rubbing and edgewear to
Rubbing and edgewear to the boards. Light boards. Some chipping to the spine. Ex libris Peter Stiff with
chipping to edges of boards. Light chipping his bookplate to front free endpaper. Light foxing to first and
to tail of spine. Ex libris Peter Stiff bookplate last few pages and several other pages. Some offsetting to
to front free endpaper. Very light foxing to pages facing the plates.
several pages.
R 7 000 - R 9 000
R 8 000 - R 12 000
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Burchell, William J. Selous, Frederick C. Andersson, Charles J.

TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN NATURE NOTES AND LAKE NGAMI; OR, EXPLORATIONS AND
AFRICA, 2 VOLS, LIMITED EDITION REMINISCENCES DISCOVERIES, DURING FOUR YEARS’
WANDERINGS IN THE WILDS OF SOUTH
London: The Batchworth Press, 1953 8vo, xxviii + 356pp. Original cloth binding. WESTERN AFRICA
With frontispiece and 12 illustrations. Top edge
Large 8vo, Vol. 1: xxix + 381pp. + 3p. gilt. Some rubbing, edgewear and staining to London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1856
advertisement, Vol. 2: xvi + 473pp. Original the boards. Light edgewear to top and tail of
cloth binding. Limited Edition of 1250 copies. spine. Small tear to top of spine. Ex libris Peter 8vo, xviii + 546pp. Rebound copy, with
With 15 plates. Vol. 1: Very small stains and very Stiff with his bookplate fixed to front free original cloth covers with gilt illustrations
light rubbing to the boards. Small bump to top endpaper. Small stain to front flyleaf. Very light retained. Includes 17 plates. Light rubbing to
of spine, and light sunning/discolouration to foxing to fore edge of textblock. boards, and very small stains to spine. Ex libris
spine. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate Peter Stiff bookplate to front free endpaper.
fixed to front free endpaper. Light foxing to R 1 200 - R 1 600 Previous owner’s signature to original front
first few pages. Pages have been cut. Vol. 2: free endpaper. Light edgewear to original front
Very small stains and very light rubbing to the free endpaper and to frontispiece. Light foxing
boards. Small bumps to bottom corners of the throughout. Small tear to one side of the
boards. Light sunning/discolouration to the fold-out map. Light creasing to top corners
spine. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate of a few pages. Small stains to edges of last
fixed to front free endpaper. Pages have been few pages and to fore edge of textblock. Light
cut. foxing to edges of textblock.

R 1 200 - R 1 600 R 1 200 - R 1 600

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47 48 49

Sykes, Frank W. Schillings, C. G. Gilbert, Sharrad H.

WITH PLUMER IN MATABELELAND IN WILDEST AFRICA RHODESIA, AND AFTER: BEING THE STORY
OF THE 17th AND 18th BATTALIONS OF I.Y.
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897 New York and London: Harper and Brothers
Publishers, 1907 London: Simpkin Marshall, 1901
8vo, viii + 296pp. + 24 pp. advertisements.
Original cloth binding, with 34 plates and 2 Large 8vo, xvi + 716pp. First American edition 8vo, 350 pp. + 1p. advertisement. Original
fold-out maps. Light rubbing and light staining in one volume. Original cloth binding with cloth binding. With 3 maps and 48
to the boards. Sunning/discolouration to the black and white illustrations. Light rubbing to illustrations. Light rubbing and small stains
spine. Light edgewear to top and tail of spine. the boards and spine. Crack to gutter between to board. Light edgewear to front board and
Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate to front front pastedown and free endpaper. Ex libris spine. Small bumps to top edges of boards.
free endpaper. Light foxing throughout. Pages Peter Stiff with his bookplate fixed to front Previous owner’s name printed to front
uncut. free endpaper. Small crack to gutter between pastedown. Small stains to front and rear
rear free endpaper and pastedown, and some pastedowns. Small stamp to verso of front
R 800 - R 1 200 chipping to rear pastedown. Light rubbing to free endpaper. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his
edges of textblock, and some light scoring to bookplate to verso of frontispiece. Author’s
top edge of textblock. signature printed below his portrait on
frontispiece. Crack to gutters between pp. 112
R 600 - R 800 and 113, 192 and 193, 208 and 209, 240 and
241, 256 and 257. Some foxing to several pages
and to the edges of the textblock.

R 600 - R 800

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50 51

50 51

Brown, Robert Angas, G. F

THE STORY OF AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORERS, 4 VOLS THE KAFIRS ILLUSTRATED
(DE-LUXE BINDING)
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895
Cape Town, Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1974
4to, Vol.1: VIII + 312pp, Vol.2: VII +312pp, Vol.3: VII +312pp, Vol.4: VII +312pp. Original green
cloth covered binding (Gilt design on the front boards), full-page maps, black and white Large fo, Limited edition of 950 numbered
illustrations throughout, frontispieces. Vol. 1: The Guinea Traders, The Corsairs of Africa, copies, of which this is no. 61 and signed by F.
The Tale of Timbuctoo, The Niger. Some rubbing along the edges, head/heel and corners are R. Bradlow. De-luxe binding, facsimile reprint
a bit bumped. Ink-spots can be seen on the front board and has minor foxing throughout. of original 1849 edition. Three quarter leather
Vol. 2: The River of Egypt, The Great Lakes, Across the Continent, The Congo. Some rubbing binding, VIII + 133pp. Original binding, with 30
and wear along the edges, head/heal and corners are a bit bumped, foxing on front and colour plates and 11 wood engravings. Minor
rear end-papers. Vol. 3: The Last of a Long Tale, The Sahara, The Missionaries, The Hunters, wear on the head/heel of the spine, internally
The International Explorers. Light rubbing along the edges, head/heel and corners are a bit clean.
bumped. Minor foxing throughout. Vol. 4: Europe in Africa, Colonies and Colonists,
The Scramble for an Empire, A Continent Under Companies, The Contest for South Africa. R 6 000 - R 9 000
Light rubbing along the edges, head/heel and corners are bumped. Foxing on the front and
rear endpapers.

R 1 200 - R 1 500

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52 Birch, K. S. 54

Anonymous GREAT GOLD MINES OF THE Churchill, Lord Randolph S.
WITWATERSRAND (SIGNED)
PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOUTH AFRICA MEN, MINES AND MAMMALS
Johannesburg: Privately Published, c. 1975 IN SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town: The South African
Photo-Publishing Company, 1894 First Edition. Large fo, Royal-blue pictorial London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company,
vynide portfolio. A portfolio of 14 watercolour 1893
Large 8vo, viii, 200pp. Full leather binding. All paintings with historical comments on the
edges gilt. Light scuff marks and edgewear Witwatersrand and some of its mines by K. 8vo, xvi + 339pp. + 32pp. Advertisements.
to the boards. Light chipping to the spine. S. Birch. Slight marks on the front and back Original cloth binding. With 27 full page
Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate fixed boards, signed and inscribed on the front illustrations, 37 text illustrations, and a colour
to front free endpaper. Very light foxing board by Ken Birch, portfolio in very good fold-out map. Very light rubbing to boards,
throughout. Small creases to a few pages. condition. and light edgewear to top and tail of spine.
Crack to gutter between pp. 199 and 200. Previous owner’s bookplates fixed to front
R 500 - R 600 pastedown and front free endpaper. Small
R 1 200 - R 1 800 tear to gutter between front free endpaper
and pastedown. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his
bookplate fixed to rear of frontispiece. Crack
between gutter and half title page. Missing p.
5 illustration. Light creasing to fore edges of
pages. Light foxing throughout. Light foxing to
bottom edge of textblock.

R 500 - R 700

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57 57

55 56 57

Anonymous Wheeler, J. Talboys Johnson, Alexander Keith

RHODESIA DIRECTORY, EARLY RECORDS OF BRITISH INDIA: THE ROYAL ATLAS OF
INCLUDING BEIRA, P.E.A. A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS MODERN GEOGRAPHY
IN INDIA
Bulawayo: The Argus Printing and Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, 1884
Publishing Co., Ltd., 1922 London: Trubner and Company, 1878
Large fo, viii + 50pp. With 49 maps (lacks map
8vo, xxiv + 749pp. Original cloth binding. With 8vo, xxxi + 391pp. + 3pp. advertisements. of Africa). Quarter leather binding. All edges
3 fold out maps. Light rubbing and edgewear Original cloth binding. Light rubbing to the gilt. Some damps stains to front and rear
to the boards and spine. Light chipping to boards, with a small stain to rear board. Light boards. Some stains and scuff marks to rear
top and tail of spine, with small tear to top of bumps to the edges of the boards. The bumps board. Small sections of cloth binding coming
spine. Spine has some sunning/discolouration. to the bottom corners have resulted in some loose at fore and top edges of rear board, and
Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate fixed to creasing to bottom corners of the pages. Ex top edge of front board. Light scuff marks to
front pastedown. Crack to gutter between title libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate fixed to spine. Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate
page and first page of the index. Two small front free endpaper. Insect damage to rear to front free endpaper. Some maps have been
tears to first fold-out map. Crack to gutter pastedown and free endpaper, which has re-backed and restored. Index page to map 42
between pp. 744 and 745. Small stains to fore resulted in some damage to the last few pages has come loose (loosely inserted).
and bottom edges of textblock. (no text affected).
R 1 500 - R 2 500
R 400 - R 600 R 600 - R 900

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60

58 59 60

Peary, Robert E. Westphal, Alexandre Cats, Jacon

THE NORTH POLE DICTIONNAIRE ENCYCLOPEDIQUE ALLE DE WERKEN VAN DEN HEERE
DE LA BIBLE, 2 VOLS JACOB CATS, 2 VOLS
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910
Valence-sur-Rhone: Imprimeries Reunies, Amsterdam: Boekverkoopers
Large 8vo, xii + 326pp. Original cloth binding. Undated (Nicolaas ten Hoorn, et al.), 1712
With 116 illustrations and fold-out map. Light
rubbing and very light bumps to the edges Large 8vo, Vol. 1: xxviii + 712pp. Vol. 2: viii Fo, Vol. 1: xx + 666pp. + 9pp. index, Vol. 2: xx
of the boards, and to the tail of spine. Some + 847pp. Quarter leather binding, with 5 + 608pp. + 67pp. Full vellum binding, each
insect damage to the gutter between front raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Vol. 1: Light volume has 6 raised bands. Includes steel
pastedown and free endpaper, which has also rubbing to boards, with some edgewear to engravings. Vol. 1: Rubbing, small bumps to the
affected a small section of the frontispiece. the corners of the boards. Light scuffing to corners and edgewear to boards. Tear to spine
Light foxing to front pastedown. Offsetting. spine. Small crease to front free endpaper. along edge with front board. Front pastedown
Ex libris Peter Stiff with his bookplate to Previous owner’s signature to front flyleaf. has come loose from the board. The rear
front free endpaper. Crack to gutter between Light creasing to first few pages. Light foxing pastedown has come loose from the board.
frontispiece and full title page. Small crack and throughout. Vol. 2: Light rubbing to the The first and last few pages have edgewear
slight insect damage to gutter between rear boards, and edgewear to corners of boards. and chipping to the edges. Vol. 2: Rubbing
free endpaper and rear pastedown. Very light Small bump to top corner of front board. and small stains to the boards. Small bumps
foxing throughout. Small stains to spine. Light creasing to first to the corners of the boards. Light rubbing to
few pages. Light foxing throughout. spine. Some chipping and small sticker to front
R 400 - R 600 pastedown. Crack to gutter between front
R 1 000 - R 1 400 pastedown and free endpaper. Marking in pen
to title page. Indentations to first few pages.
The first and last few pages have edgewear
and chipping to the edges.

R 6 000 - R 8 000

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62
61

61 62 63

De Bock, Th. Coudrain, Brigitte Timmins, Howard
JACOB MARIS BRIGITTE COUDRAIN
TRETCHIKOFF (SIGNED)
Amsterdam: Scheltema en Stuttgart: Manus Presse, 1966
Holkema’s Boekhandel, Undated Cape Town: George G. Harrap &
Large 4to, 13 loose colour etchings (complete Company Limited, C. 1969
Large fo, vii + 184 pp. Full leather binding and individually signed on double-page
with gilt designs and lettering. With 90 sheets), supplied with a descriptive cover Large hardcover fo, bound in grey
photogravures and frontispiece portrait of the sheet. Text in French, German & English in a cloth-boards with Tretchikoff’s printed
author. Some offsetting to title page. Some linen-covered cardboard box. From this book signature in black on the front board with
offsetting to pp. 66 and 67 due to previously a circulation of 80 copies printed, this is copy decorative golden dust-jacket. Unnumbered
inserted slip, no text or illustrations affected. number 19. Linen-covered box has wear along pages, 12pp of illustrated prelims, an
the edges, front board slightly dented with a introduction and 96pp of beautiful colour
R 1 000 - R 1 200 stain on top. Some offsetting can be seen on reproductions of the painter’s work on gloss
the cover sheet, a very scarce edition. art paper. The black endpapers, double at
the front with a deep-etched frontispiece
R 6 000 - R 9 000 photograph of the artist’s head, and single-
sided at the back. Minor wear along the
dust-jacket. Signed by Tretchikoff opposite
the Foreword page, includes one lose inserted
plate - The painting of “Lenka” and is also
signed on the back, internally clean.

R 2 000 - R 3 000

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64 65 66

Nel, P. G. (editor) 65 Walter Whall Battiss
(South African 1906 - 1982)
JH PIERNEEF - HIS LIFE AND WORK Lindop, Barbara
BIRD FLIGHT and MR ICARUS, I PRESUME
Cape Town: Johannesburg: Perskor, 1990 GERARD SEKOTO
screenprint, each signed, titled and numbered
First Edition, 4to, 261pp. Original green Randburg: Dictum Publishing, 1988 74/125 in pencil in the margin
covered binding, pictorial dust jacket, black sheet size: 30 by 42cm, unframed
and white and colour plates. Slight rubbing LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES, of which
on the corners, the dust jacket is neat with this is no. 40. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND Literature
some wear to the edges. Compliments sticker THE ARTIST. 8vo, xv + 294pp. Quarter leather Siebrits, W. Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself,
and previous owner’s inscription on the front binding, marbled boards, 4 raised bands with The Ampersand Foundation, Johannesburg,
endpaper. The pages are clean and clear. slipcase. Very light scuff marks to spine. 2016, another example from the edition
illustrated on p. 212
R 800 - R 1 200 R 12 000 - R 15 000
R 8 000 - R 12 000

NO LOTS 67 - 70

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36

Session 2

Monday | 26 August | 2pm

Lots 71 - 130
Decorative Arts

Furniture

37

71

A JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT AFTER
HIROSHIGE THE FIRST (1797 - 1858),
CIRCA 1840

Framed, inscribed to the reverse:
Soga-monogatari Zu-e, Hanjo gallery label
affixed to the reverse
46,5 by 36cm including frame

R 1 500 - R 2 500

72

A JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT AFTER
HIROSHIGE THE FIRST (1797 - 1858),
CIRCA 1840

Framed, inscribed to the reverse:
Soga-monogatari Zu-e, Hanjo gallery label
affixed to the reverse
46,5 by 36cm including frame

R 1 500 - R 2 500

71 73 72

73 A PAIR OF JAPANESE BRONZE VASES LATE
38 | Decorative Arts MEIJI PERIOD (1868 - 1912)

Moulded in relief with two wading birds,
24,5cm high

R 3 000 - R 4 000

74

A PAIR OF CHINESE CLOISONNÉ VASES
Depicting dragons and seasonal flowers,
each, 32cm high

R 4 000 - R 6 000

75 74

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LEAF DISH’,
QING DYNASTY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The shaped dish rising to a scalloped rim, the
interior painted with a riverscape dotted with
pavilions, a drooping willow and sampan before
a mountainous landscape, the cavetto and
interior rim with a blue diaper border
18cm long

R 800 - R 1 000

76

76 77 78

A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE CELADON 78
RETICULATED CHESTNUT BASKETS, GROUND ‘WU-FU’ BOWL, QING DYNASTY,
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY A JAPANESE BRONZE AND CHAMPLEVE
CLOISONNE VASE 19TH CENTURY
Oval, each with pierced reticulated sides rising The deep rounded sides rising to a flared rim Flanked by zoomorphic handles and
to a flared rim applied with shell-shaped handles, from a sturdy foot, the interior enameled with decorated in an archaic style
the interior well painted in underglaze-blue with five bats encircling a peach, pomegranate and 30cm high
pagodas on embankments within a riverscape finger-citron cluster, the exterior painted with
amongst trees and sampans, the interior rim ‘eight precious objects’ amongst floral sprays, R 3 000 - R 6 000
decorated with a blue diaper-ground the base chased with a two-character mark,
23,5cm wide (2) age wear 79
28cm diameter
R 3 500 - R 5 500 A CHINESE ‘FISH AND FLOWER’ PATTERN
R 3 500 - R 5 500 PLATE 19TH CENTURY
With fish, floral and crab motif
23cm diameter

R 2 000 - R 3 000

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“Bosch has developed a ceramic tradition that has exerted a great influence on many potters in this country, to the
extent that echoes or reminders of his forms and colours are discernible at nearly every exhibition of ceramics.”
- Murray Schoonraad

Esias Bosch studied Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, followed by a four-year painting diploma at the
Johannesburg School of Art, where he was to meet his wife Valerie Verster, and formed a friendship with the sculptor
Zakkie Eloff. In 1949 he won a three-year scholarship to study ceramics in Britain, initially he studied under Dora Billington,
before moving to work with Ray Finch in Winchcombe, and finally Michael Cardew in Cornwall. Following his return to
South Africa in 1953 Bosch was appointed Head of the Ceramic Department of the Durban Art School, before moving to
work as a ceramicist at the Pretoria School of Art until his resignation at the age of 33 to focus on his own creative career.

Throughout his career Bosch was always driven by an innate desire to innovate and explore. Fifteen years of working in
stoneware had left the artist in need of a new challenge, which he was to find in working in porcelain and large flattened
surfaces in a return to his foundational training in painting. From 1988 to 2003 Bosch dedicated himself to the creation of
large and sumptuous wall tiles, and overcoming the technical and creative difficulties inherent in this new direction. Rose
Korber has said of many of these large tiles that “(t)he effect of the play of light on their highly reflective surfaces is almost
kinetic, as the viewer moves slowly past the vertical tile. The light catches the gold highlights of the low relief at different
angles, resulting in a vibrant interplay of shape and colour.”

Tiles, such as the work offered here, were decorated with multiple layers of underglaze ceramic stains mixed with china clay
and various frits under a clear glaze, which was then fired several times. Bosch described the making of the tiles as follows:

“The clay took me a long time to develop as I wanted to keep shrinkage as low as possible. The entire technique
demanded hundreds of experiments. I first built a small kiln in which I made experiments for a whole year before I built
the large, flat kilns especially for the tiles.

“The panels are built up in layers and the entire process requires approximately seven firings – the result of multiple
firings is that it gives to the work depth of colour and interesting shades of colour. These tiles are not completely flat
and never reflect the light uniformly, which seems to impart something dynamic to the work.”
- LC

de Waal, J. and Bosch, A. Esias Bosch, Struik, Winchester, 1988.
Andre Eva Bosch, email correspondence 24 July 2019
http://www.esiasbosch.co.za/about-the-artist.html accessed 22/7/2019
http://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/BOSCH.htm accessed 22/7/2019
http://pottery.co.za/news/memorial/esias-bosch/ accessed 22/7/2019

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80
ESIAS BOSCH (SOUTH AFRICAN 1923-2010):
A PAINTED AND GLAZED CERAMIC TILE
Depicting a stream flowing through reeds and flowers
123 by 176,5cm
R 500 000 - R 700 000

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81
Various
A COLLECTION OF SIX BOTANICAL PRINTS
each plate: 56,5 by 49cm including frame
(6)
R 9 000 - R 12 000

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82 - PART LOT

82 83

A PART SUITE OF ROSENTHAL GLASSES 1960s A BELLE FIORE PART DINNER SERVICE - COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE
Comprising: 5 cocktail, 5 wine, 3 sherry,
2 port, 2 tumblers (17) Comprising: 6 dinner plates, 6 side plates, 6 soup bowls, 7 dessert bowls, a serving platter,
2 hors d’oeuvre plates, a fruit bowl, 5 teacups, 7 coffee cups, 9 saucers, 3 milk jugs, in sizes,
R 1 000 - R 2 000 a tea pot, a coffee pot, a sugar bowl, 2 egg cups, 3 assorted preserve pots
Platter 30cm long (61)

R 5 000 - R 7 000

83 - PART LOT

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85 - PART LOT 84

86 - PART LOT A WALNUT AND BRASS MOUNT
JEWELLERY BOX
With purple silk interior, distress,
8cm high, 21,5cm long, 13cm wide

R 800 - R 1 000

85

A WEDGEWOOD ‘CHARTLEY’ PATTERN
DINNER SERVICE
Comprising: 8 dinner plates, 8 fish plates,
8 side plates, 2 serving dishes and covers,
and a gravy boat (27)

R 3 000 - R 4 000

86

A JOHAN HAVILAND BAVAIRIA ‘RAYMOND
LOEWY’ PART TEA SET
Comprising: 4 teacups, 6 saucers, 6 side plates,
a teapot, a milk jug and sugar bowl (19)

R 2 500 - R 3 500

87

A COPPER DECANTER
Of tapered cylindrical form
42cm high

R 2 000 - R 4 000

88

A ROYAL DOULTON ‘MORRISIAN WARE
EASTERN FIGURES’ PLATE
Depicting two dancing figures
25cm diameter

R 800 - R 1 200

89

A ROYAL WINTON ‘ÉLEANOR’ PATTERN
BUTTER DISH
Together with a four-section hors d’oeuvre dish
(2)

R 800 - R 1 000

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90

A SET OF FOUR DAGUERROTYPES

3 framed with glass cover, within leather bound
wooden case with metal latch, one case inscribed
with Ralston 195 1/2 Argyle Street, Glasgow,
7.5cm height, 6cm width. 1 framed with glass
cover, missing case cover, 12.5cm height,
11cm width (4)

R 1 000 - R 2 000

Daguerreotypes: A Window Into the Past

The evolutionary history of photographic
processes has resulted in a wide range of
techniques, and one often needs a reminder that
these completely varied processes all had the
same desired outcome. Each of the processes
that has contributed to the development of
modern photography is notable for its historical
significance, as well as its material value. One
such process is silver-based photography, which
relies on the sensitivity of silver compounds
to light and is intricate in its development.
Silver photography is perhaps the earliest form
of commercial photography, dominating the
photographic world throughout the nineteenth
century. This medium involved two image-making
techniques: the first, where silver compounds
darkened directly as it was exposed, resulting in
the image being ‘printed out’; and the second,
where the silver compounds’ ability to hold a
latent image was used to produce an invisible but
developable image, which created the basis for
Daguerreotypes.

The daguerreotype was hugely successful from
the early 1830s until its decline in the 1860s,
when cheaper alternatives became available, but
has left us with near-perfect, sharp, clear and
detailed images that were far beyond their time.
This was one of the most materially long-lasting
photographic processes, with photographs
looking as perfect today as they did the day
they were made. The process included silver-
plating a copper sheet and treating it with iodine,
resulting in a light-sensitive silver iodine. The
plate was then subjected to mercury vapour,
and lastly, toned and stabilised using gold. In
order to prevent tarnishing to the silver coating,
daguerreotypes are sealed in small frames or
glass covers and cases. These cases create yet
another physical layer of protection, keeping
photographic history safely within it. Due to the
fact that daguerreotypes produced a direct,
camera-made positive, no negative was available
for later printing, resulting in each daguerreotype
being a completely unique object. – AC

Benson, R. The Printed Picture. The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
2008, p. 98-100

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91 PART LOT
A LORENZ HUTSCHENREUTHER
PART DINNER SERVICE
Comprising: 12 dinner plates, 12 fish plates,
12 side plates, 12 desert plates, 12 soup bowls
and plates, 3 meat platters, 5 serving bowls,
a soup tureen, a gravy boat, 12 tea cups,
12 saucers, 12 cake plates, 3 cake platters,
a tea pot and 2 milk jugs, in sizes,
one lid missing from serving bowls (124)
The largest platter 38.5cm diameter
R 10 000 - R 12 000

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92
A ROYAL DOULTON ‘BELMONT’ PATTERN SUITE OF GLASSES
Comprising: 12 red wine, 12 white wine, 12 whiskey, and a decanter (37)
R 3 000 - R 5 000

92 - PART LOT

93
A ROYAL DOULTON ‘BELMONT’ PATTERN
COFFEE SET
Comprising: 12 coffee cups, 12 saucers,
a coffee pot, a milk jug and sugar bowl (27)
R 3 000 - R 4 000

93 - PART LOT

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94

A ROYAL DOULTON ‘BELMONT’
PATTERN DINNER SERVICE

Comprising: 12 dinner plates, 12 fish plates,
12 side plates, 12 soup bowls, 12 dessert
bowls, 3 serving plates large, 3 serving
plates small, 3 oval serving plates,
and a gravy boat (70)
The largest platter 41cm diameter

R 5 000 - R 7 000

94 - PART LOT

95 95 - PART LOT
A ROYAL DOULTON ‘BELMONT’ PATTERN TEA SERVICE
Comprising: 12 teacups, 12 saucers, 12 cake plates, a tea pot,
a milk jug and a sugar bowl (39)
R 4 000 - R 6 000

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