However, with five phones booked and numerous bidders online, it raced past the estimate of £800-1200 to sell at £38,000 to a UK-based Chinese collector. The vase was in openly poor condition – it had been smashed and simply repaired – so would not command the six-figure sums the best of these pieces can make. It was discovered on a routine Tuesday valuation day, brought in by a private client who had inherited it.Īdding to its appeal was the Shende Tang Zhi mark in iron red to the base, a ‘hall’ mark associated with a range of fine porcelains, renowned for their delicacy, made for the Hall for the Cultivation of Virtue, a favourite summer residence of the emperor Daoguang. The 10in (25cm) example offered by Kinghams (23% buyer’s premium) in Moreton-In-Marsh on July 29 dates from the Daoguang period (1821-50). These scenes of young Chinese males carrying auspicious objects and engaging in play bestow wishes for a large family of healthy and talented sons. Chinese ‘Hundred Boys’ vase – £38,000įamille rose vases decorated with ‘Hundred Boys’ scenes are among the most commercial of all Qing ceramics.
Estimated at £80-120 at the auction on July 26, it took £1200.
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Pictured here is a rare Israel Army Toys series armoured car in original box. Gamda toys have a small but dedicated following. Some were re-castings of European toys but most seem to have been original productions. The project was overtly nationalistic and the name Sabra (the word for cactus signifies an Israeli Jew born anywhere in the historical land of Palestine) was applied to the mid-1960s diecast line of mostly American cars.Ī series of military vehicles included models with United Nations decals or those of the Israeli Army and Israeli Defence Force. Some high prices were paid for a series of toys by the Gamda toy brand – a firm that operated in Israel in the 1960s (the name means 'midget' or 'dwarf' in Hebrew). His collection was focused on some of the smaller diecast and tinplate factories that are often overlooked by toy collectors. An estate agent by profession, for several years he organised the Windsor Toy Fair for the Maidenhead Static Model Club. Special Auctions Services in Newbury recently sold the collection of John Garside. Gamda toys Israel army armoured car – £1200 at Special Auctions Services. The table offered in Bath was a fine example of its type with eight turned and reeded tapering legs on brass castors, a patent, wind-out mechanism and three additional leaves that take it to 10ft (4m) long.Įstimated at £800-1200 at the auction on July 26, it sold to an online bidder via at £7200. In an advertisement in the Norwick Mercury on Jhe lists his stock of “sideboards, dining tables, loo, card, Pembroke, and other tables, couches, chairs, cheffioneers, wardrobes, glasses, &c., and a general assortment of Upholdery Goods. The online directory of British & Irish Furniture Makers records an advert in the Norfolk Chronicle on Februin which he invites the public to inspect “a set of tables made of Norfolk Variegate Oak, which he has had the honour to design and execute for His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and which will remain at his Warerooms for a few days previous to their being removed to Kensington Palace”. Notably it retains the cabinet maker’s label for Joseph Bexfield, Norwich.īexfield, who worked in a family business as a cabinetmaker, upholsterer and mahogany merchant from Pottergate Street merits a number of mentions in local trade directories and newspapers advertisements from c.1810-38. The latest sale at Aldridges of Bath included this fine George IV period mahogany extending dining table.
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