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Autumn Catalogue Sale 19, 20 & 21 November: Thursday 19 November 2009 10:00AM
Viewing: Sunday 15 November 11.00am - 4.00pm, Monday 16 November - Wednesday 18 November 9.00am - 4.00pm.
 

A Swiss Enamelled Small Octagonal Plaque, 19th century, depicting two cavalrymen in combat in a woodland glade overlooking a river landscape with mountains, 9cm by 5cm

Guide Price: £200-300

View Lot No. 311

 
 

A Painted Black Lacquered Papier Mache Snuff Box, circa 1830, circular and concave sided, the pull-off lid painted with a young romantic couple half length against a cloudy blue sky background, 9.3cm diameter

Guide Price: £180-250

View Lot No. 312

 
 

A Micro-Mosaic Mounted Swivel Fob, circa 1825, the gold metal oval head carved with dense flowerheads and inset with four oval small medallions depicting birds, perched and on nests, from a wrythen fluted arched bracket with ring for suspension, 3cm high

Guide Price: £300-500

View Lot No. 313

 
 

A French Sewing Necessaire, probably Palais Royale, circa 1820, the richly figured wood rectangular case with vacant rhombic lid cartouche revealing a mirror to the underside, over a blue velvet lined interior with mother-of-pearl accessories, including four reels, a pair of scissors, two bodkin cases, an awl, a spatula and a star form "snowflake", 14cm wide

Guide Price: £200-300

View Lot No. 314

 
 

A Mughal Jade, Gold Mounted and Semi-Precious Stone Mounted Pendant, probably 19th century, mutton fat tone, of shaped rectangular form, centred by a bird perched amongst flowering branches beneath a suspension cylinder, 4.8cm wide

Guide Price: £400-600

View Lot No. 315

 
 

A French Gold Snuff Box, indistinct marks, circa 1820, of rectangular cushion form, engraved with panels of trailing flowers against a matted ground and large fish scale reserves, 9cm long, 3oz

Guide Price: £1000-1200

View Lot No. 316

 
 

A German White Enamelled and Parcel Gilt Snuff Box, 18th century, rectangular, with trellis and floret raised detail throughout, with white metal mounts and bracketed thumb lift, four indistinct marks on rim, 8.4cm wide (a/f)

Guide Price: £200-300

View Lot No. 317

 
 

A Pique Decorated Ivory Seal, circa 1700, of tapered cylindrical form with cushion shaped head, steel decoration in panels throughout, the oval steel head intaglio engraved with an armorial (heavily rubbed), 6.2cm high; A Turned Bone Apple Corer, 19th century, of ring tapering cylindrical form, with screw thread, 8.7cm long; and A Carved Ivory Brooch as an Italian Greyhound Head, 19th century, part of its lead in its jaw and with orange and black glass inset eyes, 4.2cm high, base metal pin fastener (3)

Guide Price: £250-350

View Lot No. 318

 
 

A Swiss Silver and Enamelled Singing Bird Box, London import marks for HCF Ld, London 1928, of bracketed rectangular outline, the plateau centred by the hinged oval lid painted with two lovers and a shepherdess with sheep and a dog in a woodland glade in the manner of Antoine Watteau, within a border of two pierrots wooing a young woman in a country house garden, the musical mechanism releasing the lid to reveal a scroll pierced base plate and a solitary automata bird with iridescent feather plumage, with chevron engine turned guilloche blue enamel canted angles, with chain pull, each of the sides centred by a Watteauesque panel, upon slightly inswept short feet (the underside with bird-form brass key compartment), 105cm by 7.6cm by 6.1cm

Guide Price: £6000-8000

View Lot No. 319

 
 

A Stainless Steel Automatic Centre Seconds Wristwatch, signed Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Ref: 6332, 1954, self-winding lever movement, engine turned dial with applied dagger markers, blued centre seconds hand, case with screw-down winding crown, screw back, 35mm wide

Guide Price: £500-600

View Lot No. 320

 
 
 
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