Antiques Trade Gazette 73 STOLEN


A silver repoussé bowl from Burma with figures in high relief on a swirling foliage repoussé background with a lotus petal border.


A silver casket in the shape of a Hindu temple containing two addresses from the Municipal Corporation of Bombay.


A silver frame containing a photograph of Lady Curzon, with blue velvet backing.


from a country house in Derbyshire, May 2010


A wooden and silver casket from the Chenab Canal Colony.


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arms & armour page 12 | VARIOUS


Highlights from specialist sales in Edinburgh, London and Maine


A good result says vendor – I’ll see you in court


 Case highlights importance of clarity over consignments


by Ivan Macquisten


WHEN Shropshire auctioneers Mullock’s sold a dealer’s stock for nearly 50 per cent above estimate, they thought that the vendor’s sole reaction would be one of satisfaction.


Instead, they found themselves in court and having to pay out hundreds of pounds in compensation and costs. The county court judgment in favour of Roy Davids, a specialist in autograph documents and one-time head of Sotheby’s book and manuscript department, highlights just how clear agreements must be between auctioneers and their vendors. The dispute arose over auctioneer Richard Westwood-Brookes’ decision to


exercise his discretion and sell off a number of unsold items below the reserve at the end of the sale after he was made offers for them. He told ATGthat he took the view it was better to get something for them as aftersales rather than return them and charge an unsold lot fee. Papers submitted to Shrewsbury County Court explained that Mr Davids had decided to close his business and consign a large number of items to be offered in Mullock’s January 29, 2009 auction.


He succeeded in negotiating a discount in the vendor’s commission, which was accordingly reduced from the usual 16 to ten per cent.


An exchange of emails between Mr Davids and Mr Westwood-Brookes then discussed reserves.


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the reserves?” asked Mr Davids. “I usually use the bottom end of the estimate as the reserve so if that is OK by


continued on page 2 the art MARKET weekly ❑


Well does well at £7400


Left: Caughley inkwell and liner sold for £7400.


A GENERATION ago, the porcelain made between c.1772 and 1799 on the banks of the River Severn near Broseley was a poor relation in the marketplace. Now, thanks to new research, careful scholarship and an enthusiastic regional collecting community, the blue and white printed tablewares in imitation of Oriental wares, for which the Caughley or Salopian factory is best known, are often more sought after than the equivalent output of the Worcester factory. More than 130 pieces of Caughley blue and white porcelain from a


Worcestershire collection sold for £56,000 when it returned to Shropshire for sale at Halls in Shrewsbury on April 29. The fruits of a 40-year collecting odyssey, and the largest dispersal of Caughley wares in the regions for some years, it boasted a number of rarities, including a documentary cabbage-moulded jug with mask spout inscribed Mr and Mrs Bailey, Good Health. Another Jug and Then. 1790. One of a number of lots in the sale that had formed part of the Caughley Bicentenary Exhibition at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, it sold to a private collector on the telephone at £4200 (plus 17.5% buyer’s premium). However, the highlight was this very rare and crisply moulded inkwell, above. Measuring 33


/4 in (9cm) in diameter, and particularly unusual for its liner with a


conical reservoir, it is decorated in a pattern known from contemporary records as the ”double Nankeen border”. A similar example dated c.1780-1790 resides in the collection at Ironbridge. This example had a label indicating it was formerly part of the Bernard Watney collection. It took £7400 (estimate £2500-3500), again from a private collector.


auction reports page 78 | NEWBURY


Furniture highlights and other reports from the UK regions


Alma-Tadema treasure found with girlie mags


Roland Arkell


 Stock book should help rewrite story of leading artist


by Ivan Macquisten


Our buying prices against a fix of £816.35 are as follows am Thursday


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AN overlooked item in a box of magazines sold at auction for a few pounds could help rewrite the story of one of the most sought after of England’s Victorian painters.


The discovery? The original autograph stock book of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, uncovered by the vendor at a clearance auction in the London area and now to be re-offered through Shropshire-based auction house Mullock’s at their sale in


“The man who spotted it rang me up and asked me for my opinion as to whether he should bid for it,” Mullock’s historical documents specialist Richard Westwood-Brookes told ATG.“I told him immediately that what he had discovered was a true art historical treasure and he should try to get it at any price. “In the end he paid just a few pounds for the whole carton, and then the underbidder asked him if he would sell him the magazines – which I gather he did.”


Mullock’s are now offering the book with a guide price of £5000-7000. “For an art dealer or art historian this book is certainly worth that,” said Mr Westwood-Brookes. “Alma-Tadema has listed everything he ever painted and everything which has been attributed to his wife so this is a


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A large Queen Anne style silver wine cooler. It has a foliated body with repoussé cavetto in the shape of foliage. In the well of the cooler there is an etching of the Curzon's coat-of-arms with an inscription. On either side of the exterior there are two tiger shaped lugs and paws’ feet. 1.2 metres by 1 metre, 50cm high.


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