94 12th March 2011 letters to the editor


SIR – There has been much criticism on your letters page of the BBC programme The Antiques Road Trip. The only favourable letter was from K.D. Antiques of Chester who took part in the programme. My antiques centre, St Martin’s


Antiques in Stamford, also took part. The fi rst that I knew about a possible


visit from BBC2 was when a ‘customer’ revealed themselves to be a location scout for the show. A subsequent phone call confi rmed


an agreeable date for fi lming and a few months later David Barby and Philip Serrell


arrived to seek out a bargain. Filming took place over two days, one for Barby, one for Serrell. Theirs was no fl ying visit. They were at the centre for several hours each day. Now you might think that a fi lm crew


in an antique centre is like a bull in a china shop, but these days a crew consists of no more than a cameraman/director and a young producer/pa. The new lightweight digital cameras enable one person to set up each shot and be responsible for sound and lighting, so the actual running of the centre and numerous shoppers was unaffected by the event.


She said it like it was


SIR – re Grammar grump, (last week’s Letters) talking of ending sentences with prepositions reminds me of the young nurse many years ago who was deputed to read to a professor with a blinding eye infection, but who had to bone up on a lecture he was due to give upon his release from hospital. She read his textbook beautifully, but was unable to understand a word of it. Her


frustration at her own ignorance eventually got the better of her, and she slammed the book on the table uttering: “Oh! What do you want to pick on a book like this to be read to from out of with for.”


Robin Butler Butler’s Antiques


Both experts were extremely


complimentary about the centre and the stock. David Barby appeared to be the more traditional of the two, demonstrating a keenness for silver. His fi nal choice was for an elegant, silver, cocktail swizzle stick. Despite his gentlemanly charm, his negotiating skills were ably tested by Tina Higgins, an old hand, being a staff member since the centre opened in 1993. Eventually a fair price was agreed. Philip Serrell was on the look-out for


“something quirky” so the eclectic choice in the centre suited him well. He eventually chose a set of bowls in a leather case and some apothecary bottles. While the task for the experts is to sell


their items for a profi t at auction, both Barby and Serrell conducted themselves in a most gentlemanly manner. Some of the negotiating in the


new series seems quite harsh. There is a feeling that the presence of a fi lm crew ‘encourages’ dealers to drop their prices. Isn’t it more likely that the dealer appreciates the value of free publicity and has little concern about the loss of a few pounds in return?


ivan macquisten email: editorial@atgmedia.com TV crew couldn’t have been better behaved Our footfall increased considerably


after the programme with many people coming from quite a distance having “seen us on the telly”. Experts and crew treated us and the


centre with respect throughout. And we must have done something


right too, because a couple of days after fi lming two of the crew popped back to purchase items from the centre for themselves!


Peter Light St Martin’s Antiques Centre


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Expressionist emerges in West London


■ Self-portrait sketch and technical analysis fuels confidence in £1m work


Trinity House


Trinity House specialises in Impressionist and Modern British paintings by some of the most exciting artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. From their galleries in Broadway, Cotswolds and Maddox Street, London, Trinity House are able to offer straight forward advice on purchasing and building a fi ne art collection.


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John Singer Sargent Head of a Woman with Gold Earrings, circa 1878-80, oil on canvas, 20 x 16in. Inscribed, upper left: to my friend Mrs Branson/J.S.Sargent


The Meidner oil is thought to date Directors: Steven Beale and Simon Shore


CHISWICK Auctions are set to sell one of the most important early paintings by the German Expressionist Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) to have come to market in recent years.


The authenticity of the painting,


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from November 1912, the key moment in his artistic development, which marked a radical change in style and occasioned the name-making series of paintings dubbed the Apocalyptic Landscapes that anticipated the horrors of the Great War. The 2ft 6in x 2ft (75 x 60cm) painting, provisionally titled The Miners, depicts the growing unrest that spread among the coal miners of Eastern Prussia and Poland in the spring and summer of 1912,


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the identity of the painting. Both carbon dating and pigment analysis conducted by the London specialists Art Access and Research at a cost of £4000 (not an insignificant outlay for a local auction room) dated the painting to around 1910, which discounted the possibility that it was a recent forgery.


fetch £800,000-£1.2m on September 28.Wick Antiques


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George II walnut cabinet. Circa 1735. H:91in, W: 44in, D: 22in Provenance: The Percival Griffiths Collection. The Frederick Pope Collection. Illustrated in R.W. Symonds English Furniture.


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Millington Adams Wimpole Antiques Stand D12 Offi ce:


2 Upper Wimpole Street London W1G 6LD


Shop: Signed 18ct gem-set and


enamelled bug brooch, 1960s. Pavé-set diamond turtle pin, French 18ct gold, 1950s.


Stand 349, Grays Antique Market 58 Davies Street London W1K 5LP


A fine Queen Anne burr walnut bureau bookcase, circa 1710


Specialists in fi ne English period furniture and clocks together with 19th and early 20th century paintings.


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with scallop shells scrolling foliage and floral trellis all below a brass grip and a flower bud knot. English circa 1880.


with scallop shells scrolling foliage and floral trellis all below a brass grip and a flower bud knot. English circa 1880.


73¾ inches long (187cm) 73¾ inches long (187cm)


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Charles Wallrock set up


Wick Antiques over 25 years ago and has been trading in Lymington, Hampshire and London ever since. Specialising in 18th /19th century fi ne furniture and


work of arts but Marine22ct objects are his passion and


14ct 18ct


will be exhibiting over H/M Silver 100 marine items at


Platinum Berkeley Square.


A handwriting expert further agreed the pencil inscription to the stretcher was


A SMALL auctioneer in Ruislip has shattered the world auction record for a Chinese work of art by taking £43m (£51.6m including


buyer’s premium) for a vase consigned to their warehouse auction room as part of a house clearance from a bungalow in Pinner.


The price puts it just outside the top ten works of art ever sold at auction, an exclusive list that up to now has only been occupied by eight-fi gure paintings and sculpture sold by either Sotheby’s or Christie’s.


Despite its modest recent history,


the 16in (41cm) reticulated double- walled vase or yang cai with famille


Stand J24


provoking the Prussian Government toom the early 19th Century to the present announce that the strikers would be day. day. “suppressed with an iron hand”. Several clues have helped confirm


marine, genre, portrait and animal subjects f frrom the early 19th Century to the present


EElford Fine Art specialises in Brittiissh andh and E European oil paintings, watercolours a and drawings and will be displaying an outstanding choice of landscapes, coastal, marine, genre, portrait and animal subjects


nd drawings and will be displaying an outstanding choice of landscapes, coastal,9ct


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that of the German artist. However, the vital piece of evidence was an incomplete and defaced self-portrait on the back of the canvas (Meidner was a habitual


Farmyard Companions Edgar Hunt (1876-1953) Oil on canvas, dated 1909, 20 x 30in


Farmyard Companions Edgar Hunt (1876-1953) Oil on canvas, dated 1909, 20 x 30in


One of two from a private family collection, One of two from a private family collec


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in fine original condition, in fine original condition


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continued on page 3 PAGE 001-005 1966.indd 1 L&W Duvallier Irish Antique Silver


Specialising in collectable and rare Irish antique silver for more than 20 years


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155 Grays


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A Dublin George III Double Coaster by Joseph Jackson 1801


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A n t i q u es Tr a de Ga z e t t e: 11 5 s h a f t e s b u ry Av e n u e , L o n d o n, WC 2H 8A F. P R I N T ED IN THE UN I T ED KI N G D OM A rare mahogany racing yachts tiller, finely carved


A rare mahogany racing yachts tiller, finely carved


Jonathan Biggs of J. Collins & Son is the fourth generation in the trade, as his great grandfather established his antiques business in Harrow in 1912. J. Collins and Son was established in Bideford in 1953 by his grandfather.


Jonathan Biggs of J. Collins & Son is the fourth generation in the trade, as his great grandfather established his antiques business in Harrow in 1912. J. Collins and Son was established in Bideford in 1953 by his grandfather.


Stand M14


Sir Claude Francis Barry RBA 1883-1970, a post-impressionist Master whose new to the market works will be available on stand L2.


Barry was a pupil of Sir Alfred East, and Sir Frank Brangwyn before becoming a member of the St Ives and Newlyn Schools of Art.


Mitchell Studio Gallery Stand L2 Above: The Miners by Ludwig


Meidner, expected to fetch £800,000- 1.2m at Chiswick Auctions on


A n t i q u es Tr a de Ga z e t t e: 115 Sh a f t e s b u ry Av e n u e, L o n d o n, WC 2H 8A F. P R I N T ED IN THE UN I T ED KI N G D OM page 3 show how the identity of the


September 28. Additional images on artist was uncovered by researchers.


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Queen Anne basin, Dublin 1708 by David King


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rose decoration would have been a commission for one of the palaces of the Qianlong Emperor (1736- 1795), probably the Summer Palace or the Forbidden City. According to the world’s


leading dealers and collectors, it is the best object of its type to be seen on the market in decades, but it also chimes perfectly with current Chinese taste that values pieces from this period above all others. Peter Bainbridge, the


auctioneer, who runs a typical local auction room, is likely to have become a multi-millionaire himself as a result of the sale. His buyer’s premium for this sale was 20 per cent, or £8.6m, while he could have charged the vendors anything up to 17.5 per cent, or just over £7.5m, to sell it.


Opening at £500,000 (the estimate


prior to sale was £800,000-1.2m), the bidding on the evening of November 11


continued on page 3 Anthea A G Antiques Anthea A G Antiques Stand E30 ‘The Olympia of antique centres’


Fine, citrin, ruby and diamond ring, signed Cartier London. Contained in its original box. Circa 1950s


Peter Harrington Rare Books, Manuscripts, Works on Paper.


Weldon Weldon


FINE DIAMONDS - ANTIQUE IRISH SILVER


David Roberts, Egypt & Nubia, from drawings made on the spot, London, 1846–491, 3 volumes, large folio, contemporary blue half morocco bindings, the preferred deluxe colour issue with 124 tinted lithographed plates, 3 vignette-titles and 121 plates finely coloured by hand.


Left: the record-breaking Ruislip yang cai, distinctive for its reticulated double-walled construction, combines various differing decorative elements in a manner typical of Tang Ying’s directorship of the Imperial manufactory at Jingdezhen during the early years of the reign of the Qianlong emperor – a period of remarkable technical achievement.


It is the perfect expression of current Chinese taste with a recent exhibition at the National Palace Museum, Taipei titled Stunning Decorative Porcelains from the Ch’ien-lung Reign focusing upon a number of pieces of this type in the collection. Quite how an


acknowledged


imperial masterpiece reached Middlesex is unknown but it probably left China soon after the end of the Second Opium War in 1860 when the Summer Palace was sacked by British troops. It had been acquired in the 1930s by the late uncle of the vendor who lived in a bungalow in Pinner, North West


London. The vendor had no knowledge of


its true worth.


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8/27/2010 3:34:57 PM


A late Regency mahogany sideboard of small proportions. English, circa 1820


45¾in (116cm) wide, 20in (51cm) deep, 36 in (91.5cm) high.


J Collins and Son, 8 Charles Avenue, Kingsley Road, Bideford, North Devon, EX39 2PH


Stand L30 Stand L30


Tel: +44 (0)1237 473 529 Mob: +44 (0)7703 336 629 Email: biggs@collinsantiques.co.uk Web: www.collinsantiques.co.uk


J Collins and Son, 8 Charles Avenue, Kingsley Road, Bideford, North Devon, EX39 2PH


Tel: +44 (0)1237 473 529 Mob: +44 (0)7703 336 629 Email: biggs@collinsantiques.co.uk Web: www.collinsantiques.co.uk Elliot Lee


Rare and unusual objects 1730-1950Elliot Lee Rare and unusual objects 1730-1950


Stand J26 Stand J26


Kenneth Harvey Antiques & Interiors (Inc.Anthony Redmile)


The Furniture Cave 533 King’s Road Chelsea


London SW10 0TZ Stand H34


Mitchell Studio Gallery 258 Station Road


Addlestone Weybridge


Surrey KT15 2PU


Tel: +44 (0)1932 854 376/ 567 874 Fax: +44 (0)1932 570 352


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‘Les Andeleys’, Sir Claude Francis Barry, oil on board, 29 x 36in.


Tel: +44 (0)20 7499 2889 Fax: +44 (0)20 7499 2889


Email: lynn@wimpoleantiques.plus.com Web: www.wimpoleantiques.co.uk


Millington Adams Knutsford, Cheshire


Tel: +44 (0)1565 745 012


Mobile: +44 (0)7957 382 381 Web: www.millingtonadams.com


Stand 143-144, Grays Antiques Market, Mayfair, London W1K


Stand 143-144, Grays Antiques Market, Mayfair, London W1K


Images not to scale Mobile: +44 (0)7792 724 091


Manager: Jason Myer Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 3775


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North European satinwood and inlaid Marriage Sofa. Circa 1820.


Admission: £15 per person including catalogue (for free return entry) Veuve Clicquot champagne bar. Megan’s brasserie


champagne bar s brasserie


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LONDON SUMMER CAPI TAL OF ART 2010


69,5 x 52,6 cm. 239‘260 / 284‘120


Auction Zurich, 17 September 2010


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Estimate EUR


Signed and dated. Jacobus Marellus f. 1640.


Jacob Marrel (1613-1681) Oil on panel.


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