ARCHIVE: Spring success at Cheffins auction!

Cheffins March 24th & 25th two day Fine Art Auction produced excellent results throughout the two days.

Some of the highlights included lot 483 a rare stipple engraved Whitefriars goblet by Sir Laurence Whistler, CBE, ‘The Idea of a City’ which finally fetched £6,000. In the same section a pair of early C20th bent steel rocking chairs in the manner of R W Winfield, made £4,000.

The Painting section attracted a great deal of attention with lot 614, ‘Portrait of Frances, Lady Horner’ by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones finally fetching £54,000 after much bidding from both the phones and in the room. Shortly followed by another star lot, by Antonio Mancini, ‘Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Williamson, aged 12’, which after keen bidding eventually made £74,000.

Collectors and Clocks continued to keep the saleroom exciting with a hunting horn thought to have belonged to Will Goodall's son 'Young Will Goodall' the renowned huntsman to the Pytchley and probably presented to him as a young man while serving as whipper-in at the Belvoir in 1870 as a promising young huntsman to be, made £2,600. A fine and rare giant Victorian Carriage Clock by Charles Frodsham, made £26,000 with an anonymous phone bidder.

For all further information please contact Jonathan Law or Charles Ashton on 01223 213343.