Summer Auction Shines!
An excellent sale throughout Cheffins two day June Fine Art Sale produced good results across the board.
Day one began well in Ceramics with lot 84, a C19th Chinese blue and white vase, 56cm high which finally made £7,500. Jewellery was also buoyant with a three stone diamond ring selling for £2,600 and closely followed by Lot 167 a stunning art deco style platinum and diamond bracelet making £10,000. A large collection of silver wine labels also attracted attention, with names such as Bateman and Sandylands Drinkwater, selling mostly to collectors and fetching up to £400 each.
Day two began with Paintings, Prints & Drawings and there were good prices achieved throughout. Lot 482, a portrait of HRH, The Princess Margaret by Sir Peter Markham Scott, finally made £1,500, selling to a private buyer. Lot 511 was also attracting good bids, High Wycombe by Harold Steggles, discovered in a local house clearance and heading previously heading for the skip, eventually sold very well for £3,000.
Study of Chestnut Leaves, by Eliot Hodgkin made £4,200, with keen bidding from the estimate of £1,000-2,000. Scenes of Venice once again proved their ongoing popularity with View of the Grand Canal, Venice by Rafael Senet y Perez making an excellent £31,000. Lot 560 saw The Greyhound Heavy Weapon by Wright Barker achieve £12,500. Heavy Weapon, a brindle male greyhound, owned by Sir Samuel Hill-Wood, a director of Arsenal football club in 1919, was winner of the Benacre Cup in 1909 and this gold cup also sold in the sale for £11,400.
Clocks also proved to hold their own on the day with a Henry Stockar of London, miniature Queen Anne bracket timepiece with painted simulated tortoiseshell and lacquer Chinoiserie case making £29,000. After keen bidding on the phones and in the room, a wonderful John Holmes London, George III mahogany chiming longcase clock, 220cm high made £16,000.
The Furniture section brought the sale to an end with strong bidding throughout, lot 848 and 849, two sets of sixteen 'Sussex' chairs, the design attributed to Ford Maddox Brown made a good £2,800 each from £400-800 estimate. Lot 890 a George III mahogany breakfront library bookcase, made £11,000 and lot 901 a pair of Solomonite carved wood painted columns, 17th/18th Century finally fetched £1,100.
