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VETTRIANO’S EASEL Items belonging to artist Jack Vettriano were
sold for a total of £20,925 at Bonhams auction house in Edinburgh. Among the star lots was the Winsor & Newton easel Vettriano used in the early days of his career, 40 years ago. It was sold for £1,875 against a pre-sale estimate of £1,200-1,500. Other lots included: a bust of Plato, which sold for £4,750; a Regency drum table that made £3,750; and a pair of Regency rosewood cabinets that also sold for £3,750. Studies of two Vettriano paintings also featured in the sale. The study for The Remains of Love, estimated at £8,000-12,000, sold for £10,625, while that for An Unexpected Guest, estimated at £10,000- 15,000, fetched £16,250.
The future’s orange A painting by Scottish Colourist Samuel John Peploe sold
for £391,250 at Lyon & Turnbull, smashing through its £200,000 estimate. The painting, entitled Still Life With Oranges, had been exhibited in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1985. The sale made a total of £1,359,549. Other lots included Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell’s Iona North End and Ben More, which sold for £66,050, and George Leslie Hunter’s Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, which sold for £73,250.
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Over the asking It was a case of ‘checkmate’ for one lucky seller at Shapes Auctions when a 19th-century ivory chess set within a walnut card box sold for £1,300 – more than ten times its pre-sale estimate of £80 to £120.
Triggering interest A rare pair of guns made by Boss & Co is
among more than 200 lots going under the hammer at Gleneagles Hotel on 25 August as part of Gavin Gardiner’s annual auction of fi ne modern and vintage sporting guns. Made in 1903, these 12-bore assisted opening single trigger sidelock ejector guns have the rare selective version of their classic single trigger mechanism and are estimated to fetch between £12,000 and £18,000. Other lots include a rare .338 sidelock ejector rifl e by James Purdey & Sons, built in 1925 and retaining much of its original fi nish, which is estimated at £20,000- £25,000, and a 12-bore single trigger self- opening sidelock ejector gun also by James Purdey & Sons, which was built in 1930, is estimated to fetch £8,000-£12,000.
Searching the salerooms for interesting lots and the latest prices
Porcelain record A blue and white plate decorated with a fi ve-toed dragon set a Scottish
record for Chinese porcelain when it sold for £427,250 at Lyon & Turnbull’s auction house in Edinburgh. The plate came from a private collection in Dumfriesshire. The seller’s uncle had been a prisoner-of-war in Japan during the Second World War and built up a collection of art while working in the Far East following the confl ict.
Sales dates
NORTH
Curr & Dewar, Dundee
12, 26 August: Antiques & Collectables
Lindsay Burns, Perth 14 August: General
EDINBURGH Lyon & Turnbull 13 August: Silver
& Accessories; 13 August: Design; 14 August: Contemporary & Post-War Art
Shapes
2 August: Fine Art & Antiques
Thomson Roddick 7, 14, 28
August: Home Furnishings & Interiors; 21 August: Collectors’ Sale
GLASGOW Great Western Auctions
9, 23 August: Antiques & Collectables
Mulberry Bank
Auctions
15 & 16 August: Fine Antiques & Collectables
SOUTH Thomson Roddick, Dumfries
12, 26
August: Home Furnishings & Interiors
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