Hammer Prices Tuesday 17th & Wednesday 18th July 2018

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1 Hammer Prices Tuesday 17th & Wednesday 18th July 2018 Lot No Description A Chinese blue and white vase, decorated with long-tailed birds, peony heads and dense foliage, 19 cm high; underglaze blue fourcharacter Kangxi mark, but not of the period A Chinese style famille rose plate decorated with three boys and Three three bird polychrome decorated Chinese panels, figures 21 cm of diameter the Sanxing (Fuxing, Luxing and Shouxing), each one about 26 cm high; together with two A Japanese pair of Chinese glazed figures famille rose of Farmers, vases; each one figure with with a turquoise a jingasa (5). interior and decorated with Daoist scholars examining a handscroll A bearing Chinese the Canton Yin-Yang famille symbol. rose Each vase vase decorated about in 42 typical cm high, colours Late with narrative scenes and Natural History designs, 35 cm high, Qing A Dynasty Chinese Export teapot with domed cover and knop finial; decorated in rouge-de-fer and underglaze blue with floral and garden designs, Three 18th Century. pieces of Chinese white metal, comprising: a circular dish, decorated with dragons, 15 cm diameter; a cylindrical box and cover, A decorated Chinese in Canton high relief famille with rose dragons, teapot 8 and cm cover, high; and 14 cm a matchbox wide, Qing Dynasty; together with two Canton-style circular dishes, 24 cm diameter, and a Japanese Koransha Imari dish, 21.5 cm diameter (4) A Chinese Canton famille rose vase, mounted for electricity, overall A height Chinese about blue 42 and cm white dish of circular form with reticulated rim; decorated with a fisherman in a mountainous river landscape; 28 cm A diameter; Chinese the associated base with pair old of label blue stating: and white 'Kieng vases, Lung/ ' decorated with dragons, 19 cm high; both with Kangxi four-character mark on the base, but not of the period (2) A Chinese mottled green jade, carved as a bird-of-prey, 6.5 cm long, post Qing Dynasty A set of three Chinese base metal figures designed as the Sanxing, A each Chinese one approximately cafe-au-lait and 24 underglaze cm high, post blue Qing decorated Dynasty teabowl (3) and saucer with Christie's label (Lot 5247/The Nanking Cargo); together A with Japanese a blue and kagami white of teabowl typical circular and saucer form (each with central with a Christie's boss designed as a monogame; decorated with a pair of tsuru beside pine A and white a Tokugawa metal vase mon, with 10 hinged, cm diameter, looped handle, Edo Period decorated on the exterior with a design of butterflies and flowers, 11.5 cm diameter Three (two LH pieces marks of in Chinese square-shaped cloisonne cartouche), together with 20th forty-nine Century Chinese mother-of-pearl gaming counters, including one counter with an A armorial Japanese crest kakejiku or achievement decorated (52) with Hina Dolls as a reminder of Hina Matsuri on March 3rd, in a fitted wood box; together with another A kakejiku Chinese of modern, a female associated deity, or other set figure, of four, also white in metal its fitted mounted, wood box archers rings; each one of typical cylindrical form and just under 3 cm diameter, post Qing Dynasty (4)

2 A Chinese mottled green jade figure of a recumbent mythological A animal large with Canton paws; famille 7.5 cm rose long, punch post bowl, Qing decorated Dynasty with typical panels depicting Natural History themes beside Manchu/Chinese A figures, Japanese 37 cm cloisonne diameter, enamel Qing Dynasty dish of circular form, decorated with two red-capped Manchurian Cranes and floral designs on the blue A ground, Bidri or 45.5 Bidri cm style diameter, portable Meiji/Taisho hookah base Period of conical form with trumpet neck, decorated with abstract designs, 33 cm, possibly A Deccan Japanese and cloisonne 19th or 20th vase Century. with a kacho-ga of two swallows beneath wisteria, unsigned, 9 cm high, Meiji Period; together with another A Japanese quantity cloisonne of Japanese vase, text, 13 art cm reference high, Meiji books Period or catalogues the base signed; with black and white photographs of kakejiku, cha no yu utensils, Ukiyo-e, Twenty stone toro, Three Mingei Japanese or domestic Ise-katagami crafts, screens, stencils for Buddhist the manufacture Sculpture and dyeing process of yukata, kamishimo and other textiles, possibly A manufactured folio of Japanese by the pictures, traditional including: process a of Kabuki washi picture paper and depicting two Samurai swordsman (possibly from a Meiji Jidei Kabuki za); two fanshaped large folio pictures of Japanese of theatrical pictures, players; including: a fan-shaped two Kisokaido picture of Road an A facsimile (Miyanokoshi/Nojiri Inakawa Hashi Enkei); three Tokaido Tsuchiya Road facsimile Rakuzan, (Hamamatsu/Akasaka/Miya); four bird and flower prints a (presumably facsimile of Hokusai's from the Kacho-Gifu series), each one about 58 x 42.5 cm; together with Shotei Sanzo Wada Takashi ( ), ( ), two shower Japanese at Terashima; men on a together bridge, wearing with: a picture of Shoki; a surimono of a snake; a picture of Fujiyama; an Fourteen oban yoko-e Japanese of a Meiji prints, Period each Imperial one about Procession; 31 x 22 a cm, fan depicting picture with various buildings, gardens or landscapes with a handwritten text in sosho along the right hand edge (14) Four Shunga pictures of amorous Japanese couples, each one approximately hashira-e format; the smallest about 63 x 12 cm (4) Ukiyo-e School, two Japanese Shunga drawings, the larger about 36 A x 27 Japanese cm; the map smaller with about extensive 25.5 x kanji 19 cm and (2) explicit Shunga scenes (possibly from a Yujo Hyoban-Ki), 37.5 x 27 cm; six small Shunga Four woodblock Japanese images; oban two yoko-e Katsukawa from the style story Shunga of the scenes; Chushingura and a (Revenge of the 47 Ronin), comprising: Hiroshige's scene from Act IV A (Yondanme); Japanese oban Hiroshige's tate-e of scene a seated from Daimyo Act VIII, (possibly showing Takeda three figures Shingen) by Kuniyoshi; together with 12 other oban including work Four signed oban Toyokuni tate-e; ga, five and surimono an oban or yoko-e other similar facsimile images; of Numazu-Juku various examples of calligraphy, some with an attached note stating that: An 'Written Ottoman by Reiko or Mamluk Kagitani/Shimonoseki/Japan style brass bowl of typical 750'; cylindrical and a number form, of decorated with shaped panels of angular script (possibly a Thuluth An type elegant after Ibn Ottoman Muqlah white Shirazi); metal about pen 28 case cm (Divit) diameter, of typical 19th Century rectangular and tubular form with attached inkwell, decorated with A shaped Japanese panels Wakizashi of animals in buke-zukuri and script, 31 koshirae cm long, with late kuro-nuri 19th/20th saya, kabuto decorated menuki, unsigned shell decorated fuchi and Utagawa unsigned Kuniyoshi, sukashi tsuba a Japanese with Amida oban yasurime; tate-e diptych the blade of two configuration kendo practitioners; together with a triptych by Kunisada of a Bijin kneeling

3 A beside set of two four kendo Japanese practitioners tate-e attributed (5) to Utagawa Toyokuni II; each sheet signed Toyokuni ga and designed with a single figure; one figure wearing a daisho and one figure holding a yari (4) Ukiyo-e School, Japanese tate-e, 14 sheets from a Gajo (concertina Ukiyo-e ehon); all School, signed 15 Toyokuni Japanese ga oban (14) tate-e sheets from a Gajo (concertina ehon); some signed Toyokuni ga. Various subjects A including Japanese a standing oban diptych sekitori by by Utagawa Kunisada Toyokuni and a triptych III depicting depicting four Edo Period figures; together with another oban tate-e diptych A depicting Japanese two oban figures tate-e outside diptych a building, by Utagawa signed Kunisada, Toyokuni each ga (4) sheet with a single figure; together with another diptych by Toyokuni III Utagawa depicting Kunisada, a total of four Japanes figures oban including diptych, a standing two lady Samurai musicians armed playing a Biwa and a Koto, signed Kunisada ga; together with two Utagawa other diptychs Kunisada, comprising: Japanese one, oban signed diptych, Toyokuni two figures ga, of two from standing a Kabuki play, possibly the villain Nikki Danjo in the rat scene from the Utagawa drama, Meiboku Kuniyoshi Sendai ( ), Hagi (2) Japanese oban diptych, two Onnagata beneath sakura branches; together with another diptych, Utagawa also Utagawa Toyokuni, School, Japanese of two figures oban diptych, beside a the futon, right signed hand oban Toyokuni depicting a Samurai and lady in front of a kagamibako; together with Utagawa another diptych, Toyokuni, also two by Japanese Toyokini III, oban depicting from a two triptych figures depicting (4) two figures in a fight with a ko-wakizashi; together with another pair of Tsukioka oban, also Yoshitoshi, from a triptych, two Japanese depicting oban buyo tate-e odori or from other the formal triptych of Fujiwara no Yasumasa and Hakamadare in Toin no Aki no Tsuki; Utagawa together with Toyokuni two Utagawa II, a Japanese School oban, diptych probably of a from man a and triptych, women, both wearing tall geta and seated on a bench; together with an oban Utagawa triptych of Kunisada Manzai, or ( ), other, performers a Japanese signed oban Toyokuni triptych ga depicting (5) three figures beside a tai fish and other dishes, signed Kunisada ga; Ichiransai together with Kunitsuna, another Japanese triptych of oban variously triptych armed depicting protagonists, a formal signed Shinto, or other procession beside high ranking Daimyo or courtiers; Kuniteru, together with Japanese another oban triptych triptych depicting of a Samurai three Yamato engagement, Nadeshko the in a centre and right oban depicting mounted warriors with yari; together Konishi with a woodblock Hirosada, inscription circa , from the three back Osaka of a fan School by Sadahide (4) (approximately Chuban) actor portraits; together with another chuban of a Japanese swordsman, fighting with a katana (4) Konishi Hirosada, circa , four Japanese Osaka School An actor Otsu-e portraits picture (all approximately of Oni Nembutsu, chuban) 36.5 x (4) 25 cm; together with a number of other Japanese pictures including: a surimono decorated Toyokuni with shells; II, a Japanese surimono oban or other tate-e image of a of standing a seated actor samisen wearing player; a tiger a decorated yellow robe, signed Toyokuni ga; together with nine other Toyokuni oban tate-e II, by a japanese other artists, oban including tate-e of one a standing by Utagawa figure Kuniyoshi, with a katana; together with ten other oban tate-e including a bijinga by Twelve Kikukawa Japanese Eizan ( ), prints including: and a one picture of a Geiko of a pagoda with two (12) Maiko, 33.5 x 15 cm; an oban tate-e of a mounted Samurai, signed Toyokuni ga; an oban tate-e of a man wearing geta and a blue striped garment,

4 Toyokuni I, a Japanese oban tate-e of a standing actor holding a katana with his left hand; together with eleven other oban tate-e Utagawa including Yoshitora, work signed a Japanese Kunisada ga oban and tate-e Toyokuni of two ga standing (12) Chinese in Yokohama; together with eleven other oban tate-e, and an oban Two yoko-e japanese facsimile oban of Kambara tate-e of (13) mirror-image portraits by Toyokuni III; an oban tate-e of a bijin wearing geta by Kuniyoshi; and nine other A Ukiyo-e large Japanese images. Together Surimono with depicting two oban Buyo facsimile Odori, of or Kyoto-Sanjo other classical dance, about 51 x 38 cm; an oban tate-e of a Samurai in the snow by Five Kunisada; Japanese and a oban bijin tate-e beneath by Toyokuni the moon III; by together Yoshitoshi. with Together four other with oban tate-e (including one of a standing actor with a net, possibly by Utagawa Toyokuni Kunisada, II), and a facsimile oban tate-e, of Torii a Japanese Kiyomasu Samurai I's portrait wearing of Fujimura a daisho and reading a makemono; together with: an oban tate-e A depicting picture of a steam Daikoku; train; a number ten other of oban Japanese tate-e; woodblock a composite printed or pages from ehon or other books; and a number of oban, facsimile or Hokusai, other images, Japanese including Manga oban Volume yoko-e II, Ehon of children with yellow fishing covers by Shunko (damaged); together with an anonymous, small sketch book of pencil Koson, and other cockerel portraits and (some hen, dated, printed ); at bottom left: and 'sold a number by Daikokuya, of other H.Matsuki, No.2 Yoshikawa, Ryogoku, Tokyo, Japan; framed and Four glazed, Japanese overall dimensions kakejiku, including: about 26.5 one x of 26 a cm scholar in a mountainous retreat, two-line inscription and two red seals; one mounted with a fanshaped Japanese image kakejiku above with another three image images, of Geiko variously performing depicting Buyo a fan Odori with A text, a Shinto ceremony beside a torii gate, and various scenes from Three Edo Jidei pieces Society; of Chinese together blue with and a kakejiku white, comprising: of a thatched a circular building dish in a decorated with two scholars on a bridge in a mountainous river landscape, Chenghua six-character mark, 25 cm diameter; a wine A ceramic water flask or Matara, designed after an Ottoman Empire, Two Isnik brooches; original, 22 each cm high. one carved with Cantonese style ivory depicting figures beside a building, gilt metal surround, suspended from a A hinged quantity yellow of blue metal and bar white brooch, ceramics, stamped comprising: 9ct, 5cm a long, bowl 19th with or 20th Chenghua six-character mark, 9.5 cm diameter; a bowl with fourcharacter Indian Kangxi carved wood mark, sculpture 10.5 cm diameter; of a horseman, a teapot; riding three a rearing small An horse whilst saving another figure from the clutches of a wild animal, An about oban 67 facsimile cm high of Okigatsukiso Meiji Nenkan Saikyo Nakai no Fuzoku after the Yoshitoshi original in Fuzoku Sanjuniso; together An with oban another tate-e bijinga; facsimile both of framed Hachiman and glazed taro Yoshie (2) at Nakaso Barrier, together with four other Japanese pictures or facsimile, including: A one pair of of a night modern time Chinese Tokaido glass hidare pictures Fuji after depicting the Fuji a Sanjurokkei Mandarin and his Consort; together with another similar picture depicting Daoists A beside coral Pine red monochrome in a mountainous bottle landscape, vase, 29.5 all cm framed high, post (3) Qing Dynasty; together with two figures of Liu Hai with his toad; a bamboo Six cricket Asian cage; pictures, three famille comprising: rose bird a textile feeders; picture two of pieces a Heian of lady Chinese courtier; a Himalayan Tantric Mandala; a picture of two horsemen Two hunting Chinese wild boar; pictures: and three one depicting Japanese a pictures scholar or of traveler Temple riding grounds a by mule; the other of a scholar, holding a fan beside a single lotus; both

5 Two framed Chinese and glazed. pictures: Each one one depicting about 33 a seated x 33 cm scholar (2) sewing a textile; the other of a standing scholar with a staff; both framed and WITHDRAWN glazed. Each one A facsimile with overall of a dimensions moonlit Shinano about Shiojiri 41 x 35 (now cm (2) in Nagano Prefecture); together with: a set of four Mingei (or other Seven Asian folk Chinese, art) pictures or other depicting Asian, pictures, children comprising: and toys; and two a small depicting print birds and flowers; one of a Daoist Scholar beside a red-capped crane; and a set of four botanical pictures. Each one of the last with A small green jade figure, carved as a recumbent Buddhist Lion with a pup on its back, 4.5 cm long, post Qing Dynasty A mottled jade belt hook with mythological animal head and oval A boss; Tamil 8.5 Nadu, cm long, or other Qing Asian, Dynasty polychrome or later wood figure of a winged Kamadhenu, dimensions without stand approximately 70 cm high and 60 cm long, 20th Century A quantity of about 185 Chinese Mother-of-pearl gaming counters, Two contained Thai, in or a other small Asian, wood pictures box (lot) of Hanuman the hero of the Hindu Epic, Ramayana, each one framed and glazed and approximately 44 AMENDED x 34 cm; together ESTIMATE with three A blue Asian and ornithological white meiping, pictures decorated (5) with four figures, standing beside a pine tree, 25 cm high, late Qing Dynasty or A later white metal mounted textile cap, possibly Yomut or another Turkmen people; woven in various colours, and covered with Five extensive famille coinage rose plates, and other including metal a designs, set of four diameter all decorated about 17 with cma mountainous river landscape, 23 cm diameter; together with a famille A rose pair vase, of famille decorated rose pot-de-creme; with floral and each Natural one History with a designs; domed cover all Qing and bud finial, 6 cm diameter; together with a Canton famille rose A oval powder-blue dish decorated ground with oviform Manchu/Chinese vase with domed figures cover in a narrative and knop finial; decorated with panels depicting floral designs, scholar's A implements Tibetan or and Himalayan landscapes, metal 36 Dbang cm high, Dung 20th with Century mythological (2) animal head and undulating neck, 55 cm long; together with a Mughal style A picture, wood unframed sculpture designed (2) as the death of The Historical Buddha, Sakyamuni (Mahaparinirvana); together with a rectangular scarlet and gilt stand (2) A large, mottled green figure of a recumbent horse, 26 cm long; with A a fitted marble wood style stand figure (2) of a seated deity, possibly Maitreya, Bodhisattva of the Future, or Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of A Compassion pair of famille in Mahayana rose shallow Buddhism. soup dishes; Seated each with one an decorated open text. with a small group of scholar's implements in a garden, 23 cm diameter; A Qianlong/Jiaqing Satsuma ewer with together dragon with head a quantity spout, of decorated mainly Chinese colours Export and gilt with a kacho-ga of sparrows flying beside bamboo, prunus and A other Satsuma flowers; ewer 30 with cm high; dragon signed spout, in gilt similar with to Satsuma the preceding five kanji lot, mark, decorated with a design of fans floating on waves; 22.5 cm high; A together Canton with: famille a pair rose of vase Japanese of cylindrical Imari bottle form, vases decorated of ichirinzashi on the typical ground with various panels depicting Manchu/Chinese figures and Natural History designs, 45 cm high, Qing Dynasty

6 A famille rose vase of octagonal, tapering form, decorated with Manchu/Chinese figures in a garden landscape, 14 cm high, An Qianlong unusual four-character Chinese Export mark blue but and not white of the dish period; of circular together form, with a decorated with a group of four water buffalo, nearly 23 cm diameter, A 18th Qajar Century style white-metal mounted glass bottle; the reticulated metal design depicting figures beneath trees, 27 cm high; together with an A Iranian Chinese circular archaistic vessel metal and dish, jue of both tripod decorated form, 20 with cm high, classical together with a pair of Chinese cloisonne enamel horses, each one about 12 cm high (3) An elegantly decorated vase decorated with a mountainous landscape; 14 cm high, the base marked Song Lin Zhai zhi A Chinese blue and white teapot of cylindrical form with circular cover, decorated with floral designs; 15 cm high, 20th Century (2) A Chinese soapstone figure carrying a basket of flowers, about 21 A cm Vietnamese, high; 19th or or 20th other Century; Asian, mother-of-pearl mounted for electricity inlaid table; decorated with a central circular panel surrounded by floral designs, carved Yong tripod Mun legs, Sen 55 x ( x ), cm watercolour on paper, a sailing vessel probably on the coast of Malaysia; signed and dated at bottom left, A framed Chinese and scroll glazed. picture Overall depicting dimensions a scholar including riding frame a mule 59 across x 54 cm a bridge in a mountainous, river landscape with inscription, Lu Xiao man A modern, Ming style celadon bowl, decorated with floral designs in An the Indonesian, interior and a or key-fret other Asian, design stick on the puppet exterior, for Wayang 17 cm diameter Golek performance; possibly intended as a character from the famous epic, A Ramayana; small, mottled about brush 90 cm washer high with underglaze blue Kangxi sixcharacter mark, but not of the period, 7.5 cm diameter; together with a lacquer style box and cover of cylindrical form, 6.5 cm diameter. A large Thai picture of everyday life in a fishing village, framed and Two glazed, Chinese overall blue dimensions and white about vases: 147 one x 98 decorated cm with a large peony flowering in a garden, 14.5 cm high, 18th/19th Century; the An other archaistic decorated metal with hu a with pair of cylindrical birds beside rim and peony, oviform 14 cm body; high, Kangxi decorated with lappet-shaped motifs beneath a continuous band of A linear famille and rose archaic-style figure of a motifs; standing 28 girl, cm high; holding with a a flask fitted with wood both stand hands; mounted for electricity. Overall height including electrical A fitting Satsuma about bowl 54 cmor small chawan, decorated in typical colours and gilt with Arhat, about 9.5 cm diameter, the base with two kanji A beneath modern a Yixing a mon teapot of Lord and Shimazu; cover with together cicada with (or a other Fukagawa invertebrate) Imari, finial, modeled in the style of Chen Mingyan; the base with ersatz A Chen Chinese, Mingyan or other seal; Asian, about 13.5 soapstone cm high seal, designed as a pine-clad mountainous landscape, 11 cm high; together with: an ersatz A netsuke pair of of famille a hare; rose a small vases; Fukagawa each one vase; decorated and five with small floral ivory designs and animal mask, ring handles; 24 cm high, Chenghua four-character marks but 20th Century (2) A gilt and painted wood or lacquered figure of a seated mule; 2,

7 possibly Indian, and intended to represent the Vahana of Kalaratri A Chinese celadon vase with ring handles and lotus decoration; A mounted small pair for of electricity; Japanese overall bronze height koro; about each 51 one cmwith domed cover and karashishi finial, decorated in takabori with birds, 16 cm high, Two Meiji graduated Period; together famille with rose a tankards, pair of other decorated Japanese with vases, similar, 38 Manchu/Chinese figures, the taller 15 cm high, 18th/19th Century; together with a Canton style, famille rose vase, 40 cm high, and a A copy of 'Chats on Oriental China' by J.F. Blacker, published by A T.Fisher Chinese, Unwin or other (Second Asian, Impression metal figure 1911) of The Historical Buddha, Sakyamuni; seated in dhyanasana on a lotus base with both hands clasped together in mudra, 33 cm high A tall, Chinese jardiniere stand with marble inset, decorated with a A reticulated Japanese prunus lacquered design, wood about writing 90 cm slope high, of rectangular Qing Dynasty form, later decorated with a kacho-ga design beside Fujiyama; 45 x 32 x 23 cm; A the Kutani interior slender also with oviform a Mount vase Fuji from design, Kaga Province; Meiji/Taisho decorated Period in akajikinga with typical panels depicting a kacho-ga and three figures A beside small a mottled tsuitate; green the base figure with of Sakyamuni, kanji mark, 36 The cm Historical high, Meiji Buddha, Period; seated in typical dhyanasana with the right hand in bhumisparsha mudra, 5 cm high, 20th Century A modern blue and white vase of cylindrical form, decorated with a A typical beaded design necklace of wave, with sea twenty spray, four and beads floral of motifs; spherical 23 cm form high interspersed with nineteen other beads or irregular form, overall An length ersatz about katana 57 cm; in buke-zukuri together with style a mottled koshirae, pendant probably decorated for Kenjutsu with or other Martial Arts discipline; the blade honzukuri/koshi-zori style A with set black of six saya, Japanese black rectangular sageo cord, applique; and mokko-gata each one tsuba. decorated Nagasa in ivory or bone with a figure beside a bird; overall dimensions of each An about elegant 29 x 23.5 textile cm, obi Meiji of typical, Period long (6) rectangular form; decorated with fan-shaped designs depicting floral motifs and Heian Jidei style oxdrawn pair of carriages modern, (Goshoguruma); blue and white, candle about 412 or joss-stick x 30 cm holders; each A one with circular plate decorated with confronting five-clawed A dragons; Chinese 24 blue cm and high white (2) vase decorated with birds perched amongst trees, 21 cm high, Kangxi four-character mark but not of the A period; famille together rose oviform with four vase blue decorated and white with teabowls, a narrative a Chinese scene, 22 Export cm high; together with a smaller vase, similar, 17 cm high; the second vase with Chenghua four-character mark (2) Two Chinese soapstone, or other, seals; each one surmounted by a A mythological small famille animal; rose vase, the taller decorated seal about with 13 Manchu/Chinese cm high (2) figures in landscapes, 15.5 cm high, Qianlong; together with an underglaze A blue polychrome decorated, enamel bottle vase, tea-caddy 25 cm of high lobed (2) form with domed cover, decorated with rouge-de-fer, grisaille and other colours with a design A depicting mottled a blue mountainous monochrome river vase landscape, with trumpet 11 cm neck, high, just 18th under Century 20 cm high; together with a blue and white oviform vase, decorated with a bird-of-prey beneath pine, 13 cm diameter; the last possibly

8 A A Three pieces of Chinese soapstone, comprising: one of a kneeling figure on a lotus base, about 7cm high; one of a long-tailed bird A beside small a pair large of flower, Chinese about cloisonne 15 cm vases, high; and 16 cm one high; carved a cloisonne as a bowl of enamel brush washer of circular form, 16 cm diameter; a small white A metal polychrome and enamel vase stem with bowl, floral about decoration, 8 cm high; 27 cm two high, white the metal base and with a Qianlong six-character mark; a cylindrical vase with powder-blue A ground, Chinese about textile 26 panel cm high; of rectangular and a famille form rose decorated circular tureen with a and design of Manchu/Chinese boys playing in a procession, framed and glazed, A overall 19th Century dimensions Canton 99 x ivory 69 cmfan, the guardsticks profusely carved in relief with figures in formal gardens and pavilions and fine multilayered Japanese floral decoration, cloisonne the enamel interleaf vases, sticks comprising: brise-carved one with of figures Two hexagonal, tapering form decorated with four red-capped Manchurian A tsuru, Guan-yao nearly or 13 Ge-yao cm high; style the vase other on decorated circular foot, with decorated a kacho-ga with an imitation of the jinsi-tiexian style crackle, nearly 14 cm high; together with a pair of blue and white 'ginger jars'; all post Qing Dynasty (3) A Blanc-de -Chine joss-stick holder, designed as a Buddhist lion on a A rectangular blue and white plinth, vase, 13 cm decorated high, Qing with Dynasty panels depicting Manchu/Chinese ladies in an interior, 21 cm high, the base with Seven Kangxi pieces four-character of famille mark rose but porcelain, not of the comprising: period; together a small with oviform vase, 5 cm high; a floral decorated cup; a small Canton vase; four A Canton quantity vessels of Asian and ceramics, three associated comprising: covers. two The blue largest and white vessel boxes 10 of cylindrical form; two prunus decorated cylindrical vases, each with A a Kangxi pair of blue four-character and white mark; vases; a each famille one rose with cup; domed a pie-crust cover and rim dish Buddhist Lion finial, decorated with four-clawed dragons amongst A peony 19th and century floral Cantonese designs, 16 export cm high. carved Both ivory vases brise-fan with a finely-worked Kangxi fourwith monogram and oval vignettes of figures crossing bridges on a A foliate Cantonese ground rectangular with birds and wood animals, box and relief-carved hinged cover, guardsticks, designed 22 on the top and sides with typical designs of Manchu/Chinese figures A standing Vietnamese, in gardens or other beside Asian, trees green and glazed buildings, stoneware 25 x 9.5 vase, x 6.5 cm, decorated in high relief with the unusual combination of horse, stag A beside plated, pine, white dragon metal and rectangular cockerel, plate about decorated 11.5 cm high, with a probably mythological 19th scene depicting a hero carrying a lady on horseback, about 40 x 30 A cmcanteen of epns Hanoverian rat-tail flatware for six (apparently unused), to/w a silver 'berry' sauce ladle of Georgian origin, a A Victorian silver sugar pickle basin, fork, Continental Sheffield 1918, white a set metal of six preserve napkin spoon rings, and pin Birmingham 1914 and various Georgian and later teaspoons, 10.6 oz A total, cased to/w silver a pair brush of loaded set, to/w silver a silver short cigarette candlesticks, box, London an epns 1971, rose 12 bowl, two salvers, two bottle coasters, cased set of steel knives and forks with antler handles and other flatware, etc. (box) A four-division toast rack, London 1943, to/w a set of six electroplated goblets (7) A Victorian epns kettle on stand with ivory handle and finial, to/w various trays, flatware, pair of cache-pots, candelabrum, etc. (box) A large Victorian silver plated oval wine tray with foliate-chased 25.00

9 A A decoration pair of George within IV vine-cast silver sugar rim with tongs, twin London handles, 1828, 67 x a 41 Mexican cm overall sterling 'hat' ashtray and a continental white metal sugar basin and A napkin quantity ring, of to/w silver, various electroplated electroplated items teawares, and other tablewares, metalware, including an Edwardian Art Nouveau silver-backed clothes brush and A other Victorian silver electroplated brushes, hand-mirror, bottle coaster photograph with pierced frame, sides etc. and vinecast rim, to/w an engraved and pierced oval fruit basket, an Two entrée canteens dish and of cover epns with bead-edge gadrooned flatware rims, and embossed cutlery, twelve and settings in all, to/w an oak canteen of twelve electroplated fish knives and forks with servers (3) A German ovoid covered box, to/w a candelabra, a quantity of candleholders electroplated and a coffee and pot gilt cocktail shaker with revolving outer sleeve An showing engraved cocktail recipes and ingredients, to/w two A electroplated quantity of epns bottle fiddle coasters pattern and flatware, a wafer box to/w (4) a Harrods cased set of fish knives and forks, pair of sauce boats and other tableware and flatware (box) An epns three-vase table centrepiece, to/w various cased flatware A and Victorian other plated electroplated tablewares floral-chased (box) fruit basket with swing handle, by Creswick & Sons, to/w other electroplated wares including entree dish, fruit baskets, flatware, GPO whistle, etc. (box) A Victorian epns floral-engraved four-piece tea/coffee service, to/w a three piece oval tea service and a pear-shaped hot water jug (box) An electroplated four-piece tea service, to/w two oval fruit baskets, souvenir spoons, etc. (box) A canteen of epns flatware and cutlery for eight, by Arthur Price of Sheffield (little used) A quantity of hotel plate teawares, muffin dish and cover, entree dish and cover, candlesticks, etc. (box) A large oval plated on copper tray, an Edwardian three-piece tea A service Whitby and of London other electroplated on copper wares, punch glass rose-bowl, with cups etc. to/w a mahogany cased set of fish knives and forks and other table wares A (box) Regency silver oblong teapot, half-reeded with scroll, egg and dart moulded rim, on ball feet, with ivory handle and finial, Samuel A Hennell, Victorian London silver pair of 20.5oz Aesthetic gross Movement grape scissors with foliate pierced handles, William Hutton & Son, London 1887, to/w a Asprey: tea strainer a pair and of a Georgian-style small quantity sauce of other boats flatware, with cut 6.7 rims, oz total, scroll four handles and hoof feet, Birmingham 1929, 6 oz, to/w a pair of plated A on walnut copper canteen classical-column table with candlesticks, two fitted drawers a plated containing copper an coaster extensive set of silver Hanoverian rat-tail flatware for twelve, A including small silver table Jersey forks, cream dessert jug spoons with cover and forks, and cane-bound soup spoons, handle, A. Marston & Co., London 1985, 2.5 oz, 8 cm high, to/w five items of An Georgian engine-turned fiddle pattern silver flatware cigarette - case, various engraved makers with and dates Edward (6), VIII 6.8 crowned cypher, the gilt interior inscribed 'Cartier London', Garrard & Co. Ltd., London ,000.00

10 Various oddments of silver, including a three-piece condiment set with spoons, two tea strainers, egg-cup, spirit burner and a cased A infant's late Victorian feeder spoon, silver small 12.6oz tea total caddy, weighable embossed silver, and to/w chased a small with scrolls and foliage, Atkins Brothers, Sheffield 1891, to/w a silverbacked Aurum hand-mirror, silver two parcel brushes gilt Winchester and an antique Cathedral Dutch Goblet, engraved An commemorating 900 years, limited edition no 193/900, London 1979, Masonic: 12oz, c/w a booklet George signed III silver by square Michael pendant, Stancliffe, maker Dean TH, of Winchester London 1814, to/w three apron squares stamped 'GK Silver' (possibly An Chinese), Edwardian a leather silver and pin satin dish with apron scalloped and a Certificate rim, Horace of Admission Woodward to & Sons, Birmingham 1903, to/w an American Sterling pin dish and two A Egyptian set of six 900 Hong grade Kong circular Sterling pin dishes cocktail with spoons engraved with hollow decoration sipperstraw stems, each hung with an individual small ornamental object (4), A (for Samson identification), Mordan 19cm. & Co silver-topped smelling salts bottle, London 1892, to/w a toilet jar and another smelling salts bottle (top An unmarked), Edwardian three cut silver-topped glass hip-flask brushes, with silver a three-piece hinged bun manicure cover and set detachable beaker, Thomas Ingleton, London 1903, to/w seven cut A glass US Gorham toilet jars Sterling with silver reeded tops pin-dish, and two small 13.5 x oval 10cm, photograph 2.6oz, to/w frames a silver gilt 'Pro Europa' medal, with facsimile signature of Geoffrey Two Rippon silver MP, Kiddush Birmingham cups with 1971, wriggle-work in Asprey case. engraved (note: decoration, Geoffrey Birmingham 1907/12, to/w a pair of Persian white metal egg-cups of A reeded fine and form, heavy an unmarked quality Regency flute vase silver section tea pot and of a compressed pair of Victorian circular form, with reeded finial, Greek key, honeysuckle and other A engraved George designs, III silver tea ivory pot scroll of oval handle, cylindrical on shallow form with raised straight foot rim, tapering spout and rococo style embossed and chased decoration, An wooden engraved handle silver and jewellery finial, Robert box with Hennell fitted I, green London velvet 1782, lining, 13.8oz Mappin & Webb, London 1916, to/w a boudoir clock of 'keyhole' form A with cased engraved set of silver six Art front, Deco blue style velvet silver back gilt and enamel watch movement, coffee spoons, Birmingham 1921, to/w a cased set of six Sterling cocktail A forks late with 18th facetted Century gemstone French white thistle metal finials, taste-vin a silver-topped with snake glass ring pot, handle and nail-punch decoration, 1795 poincon, engraved 'J.B. De A Loustal'. Victorian 9.5cm half-reeded diameter sugar basin with hinged cover and bun feet, Thomas Bradbury & Son (possibly), London 1893, 5.4oz, to/w an An Edwardian Indian white visiting metal card melon-shaped salver with scrolling sugar basin rim, Fenton and cover Brothers with Ltd, elephant finial, the lobed body richly engraved and chased with A jungle George beasts III silver among snuff palm box trees, of curved on three and 'fish' rounded feet, rectangular 5.7oz, 10cm form with flush-fitting hinged cover, Joseph Willmore, Birmingham A 5.5cm pair of long late Victorian small silver salts on bun feet, Hilliard & Thomason, Birmingham 1889, 4.5cm diameter, to/w a sugar basin A with heavy cut rim quality and Art three Deco pad engine-turned feet, Stokes & silver Ireland cigarette Ltd., Birmingham case, Charles Packer & Co. Ltd (Regent St), London 1923, 3.4oz, to/w a Baby- A Myflam pair of cigarette Victorian lighter embossed with Dutch and pierced.833 standard circular embossed silver bonbon body, dishes, Mappin & Webb, Sheffield 1904, to/w two other similar dishes and a miniature Armada dish (5), 7.7oz total A pair of Art Deco silver four-division toast racks with ivory handles,

11 An Viners, Edwardian Sheffield Scottish 1940 Art Nouveau planished silver comport with bowl raised on three organic 'whiplash' supports and conical base, An Hamilton Edwardian & Inches, cased Edinburgh set of six 1904, silver 13.9 napkin oz, rings, 17.5 engraved cm high in the Aesthetic manner and numbered 1-6, Walker & Hall, Sheffield 1908, 6.7oz A set of six George III silver OEP table spoons, William Bateman I, A London set of 1815, four Chinese 14.3oz white metal pickle-dishes to/w an oval pierced silver bonbon dish, Sheffield 1916, a Victorian foliate-chased cream jug, Sheffield 1890 and two caddy spoons (8) A Tiffany & Co money clip stamped '925', to/w a silver example, A Harrison Victorian Brothers floral embossed & Howson, Christening Birmingham mug 1985 of baluster (2) form, Richards & Brown, London 1858 to/w another Christening mug, Birmingham 1964, a silver egg cup, a silver salt and pepper and a A heavy quality silver letter salver with pie-crust rim and three scroll A feet, Victorian Martin cased Hall & pair Co Ltd, of silver Sheffield napkin 1931, rings, 11.8oz, cast with 20.5 the cm shield diam and motto of the Leathersellers Company, Mappin & Webb, Sheffield A 1895 pair to/w of Edwardian a pair of engine oval pierced turned bonbon napkin rings, dishes, Birmingham Carrington 1921 & Co and (Regent Street), Birmingham 1905, to/w a baluster Christening mug, A Birmingham Victorian globular 1924 (3), opaque 10oz total glass scent bottle with floral painted decoration and silver screw bun cover, Birmingham 1886, to/w a An spiral-writhen oval silver ring-box glass bowl with and engine-turned cover with pierced hinged and cover embossed and velvet silver lining, on cabriole supports, Birmingham 1919 to/w a George IV, Irish A pen pair knife of Victorian with floral cast and silver foliate-chased berry spoons silver with handle matching (circa sifter 1827), ladle, an William Hutton & Son, London 1893/4 to/w various smaller silver spoons etc, 14.2oz Four George IV Irish silver fiddle pattern tablespoons with rat-tail backs, Christopher Eades, Dublin 1825 (also stamped M West) 9.9oz A set of eight George IV silver Kings pattern dessert spoons, with shell-back bowls, Jonathan Hayne, London 1827, 16.2oz Four Victorian silver fiddle thread and shell table forks, London 1895, An to/w Edwardian three matching cylindrical dessert silver forks, sugar London caster 1905 in the (7), Art 20oz Nouveau manner, with pierced sides, floral bands and blue glass liner, Henry A Williamson cased set Ltd, of six Birmingham apostle tea 1907, spoons 16 with cm to/w tongs, an Sheffield octagonal 1910, baluster a cased set of six coffee spoons with bean finials, Sheffield 1917, two cased Christening spoons and forks and a cased silver-back A loaded silver capstan inkwell, Birmingham 1932, 15 cm diam to/w a smaller example with enamelled top, Birmingham 1909, 11 cm (2) A selection of silver-mounted open salts, toilet jars, pepperettes, nursery photograph frame etc (box) Three various silver cream jugs, to/w a sweetmeat bowl with pierced A rim Victorian and a small silver-mounted Sterling vase glass (5) travelling 10oz inkwell, to/w five silvertopped scent/smelling salts bottles and five cayenne pepper pots with silver tops - two with devils head finials (11)

12 a Six small silver specimen vase flutes to/w a late Victorian quatrefoil A cruet pair stand of novelty (unmatched silver 'wishbone' bottles) and sugar a drum tongs, mustard Birmingham (box) 1937 to/w a George III caddy spoon of shovel form, Samuel Pemberton, Birmingham 1806, and six other small silver pairs of sugar tongs (8), A quantity of Georgian and later silver spoons and forks - various makers and dated, 12.2oz total A Fifteen pair of various Edwardian Victorian silver and salts later modelled small silver as miniature open salts, porringers, 7.7 oz total Wakely & Wheeler, London 1901, to/w a pair of late Victorian halfreeded Victorian stemmed silver scent open salts flask, of richly navette embossed form, Josiah and chased Williams with & Co, floral A and foliate scrolling decoration, hinged top and glass lining, Horton & Allday, Birmingham 1888, 15 cm high An Edwardian engraved silver double sovereign case, Birmingham An 1901 Art to/w Deco a single style silver sovereign 2ozs case, hip flask Birmingham with hinged 1912 screw (2) top and engine-turned decoration, James Dixon & Son, Sheffield 1939 to/w a Three cigarette novelty case silver with 'watered bookmarks, silk' a effect 'meat engraving skewer' letter and gilded knife, Sheffield interior, 1968, a silver-bladed letter knife with mother of pearl handle, A Sheffield small George 1929 (5) III silver vinaigrette with nail-engraved hatching, the gilt interior with scrolling filigree grill, Samuel Pemberton, Birmingham 1804, to/w a plain oblong vinaigrette, Joseph Willmore, Birmingham A Six Continental various Victorian white metal and later miniature small table silver and pill-boxes, chair, to/w 3.5 oz various total silver miniatures including chair, three pepperettes as coffee pot and A flour Victorian dredgers, embossed tyg, milk silver and sugar heart-shaped pair, milk pill-box, jug, napkin William ring Comyns and & Sons, London 1889, to/w an Edwardian heart shaped pin-box with A cushioned 19th century hinged Dutch cover.833 and standard embossed circular silver snuff sleeve, box Birmingham and cover to/w a US Gorham Sterling small pierced bowl, an antique miniature Georg Dutch three-footed Jensen - five bowl small and silver 800 spoons, grade thistle-shaped London import small 1928, vase, a quantity of sundry silver, foreign white metal and electroplated items An to/w Aspreys a simulated Art Deco tortoiseshell white onyx snuff desk-set, box and inlaid coin-purse with lapis (box) stringing and with silver gilt mounts, comprising; an inkwell and pen stand, A George small silver Betjemann scent & flask, Sons Birmingham Ltd., London 1931, 1926/28, a vesta to/w case, the matching Birmingham 1897 and other oddments of silver, including cake knife, A butter set of knife, Hanoverian two penknives, rat-tail silver button-holes, flatware folding and cutlery comb for etc six, comprising table forks, dessert spoons and forks, soup spoons and A two set table of Hanoverian spoons, fish rat-tail knives silver and for forks six, and comprising a soup ladle, table 74 forks, oz total dessert spoons and forks, soup spoons, teaspoons and two table A spoons, large oval 60oz, silver to/w tray six of each lobed table form knives with and moulded cheese rim knives and scroll-cast with twin handles and four feet, John Henry Potter, Sheffield 1926, 110 oz A approx ltd edition 69 cm silver wide Paul overall Revere x 44 Liberty cm Bowl, commemorating Bicentenary of the American War of Independence, maker NT Ltd, A London loaded 1976, silver 43.5 capstan oz, 28 inkwell cm diam, with ltd hinged no cover, 269/1776, S Blackensee with original & Son Ltd, Birmingham 1922, 14 cm diam, to/w another capstan inkwell with flip-cover, Wilmot Manufacturing Co, Birmingham 1928 (2)

13 A George III Irish silver fiddle pattern table spoon with rat-tail bowl, George Nangle, Dublin 1815 to/w a matched set of twelve 19th Gerald century Benney fiddle pattern design teaspoons - two Silver various Jubilee makers dishes and dates, inset with 9.8 oz gilt centre, London 1977, ltd ed nos 11 and 12/1000, 13.5 cm, in original Stuart boxes Devlin with certificates - a set of four circular silver open salts with crenelated rims and blue glass liners, London 1965, 10 cm diam, 35 oz total (net A of limited liners) edition to/w a set silver of four 1972 modern Royal Silver design Wedding salt spoons, commemorative Cooper plate, Historical Heirlooms Ltd, Birmingham oz, 20.5 cm A diam, silver ltd pepper ed no, mill 2170/3000, in the form in original of a milk-churn, gilt tooled J blue A Campbell, leather London 1996 to/w a salt and pepper pair on pad feet, Sheffield 1965 and a An pair oval of knife silver rests, trinket Sheffield box with 1918, beaded 14.8 rims oz gross and hinged (but net cover, of glass gilt interior and embossed feet, S Blackensee & Son Ltd, Birmingham 1924, 6.4 oz, 15 cm wide A Continental 900 grade trinket tray with beaded rim and pierced scrolling end handles, 10.3 oz, 25 x 18.5 cm A silver-mounted cut glass scent bottle, Birmingham 1900, to/w eight A other blown-glass silver-topped whisky toilet noggin jars, with a hairbrush silver top and and a hand-mirror star-cut base, (box) Henry Williamson Ltd, Birmingham 1921 to/w a sugar-pail, Sheffield 1911, Two an Edwardian silver cigarette cut glass cases, scent an flask unmarked with silver punch screw ladle bun inset cover, with George II coin, on whalebone stem, a silver-topped toilet jar, hand mirror and a shoehorn and button-hook pair (box) A George IV silver part-set of six dessert forks with four matching A knives, matched with part mother-of-pearl set of five George handles, III and Eley Victorian & Fearn, modified London King's 1821 pattern dessert spoons, London 1818/42, to/w three Hester Bateman A OEP pair teaspoons, of George London III silver 1784, and oval five domed various dish-covers, other Georgian engraved with Royal badge and two coronet crests, Andrew Fogelberg and Stephen A Gilbert, pair of London early George 1783, with III silver associated feather-edge unmarked basting cast spoons metal rams' with lion and sword crest, (probably) Thomas & William Chawner, London A 1769, pair 7 of oz, George 29 cmiii silver OEP stuffing spoons, engraved with the Scott family crest, Encombe Howe, Richard Crossley, London 1795, 6.3 oz, 29 cm An unusual pair of silver oyster-forks with flattened blade tines, A Abraham pair of George Barrier, III London OEP table 1784 spoons, (incuse Thomas duty mark) Northcote, London 1784 (incuse duty mark), to/w a pair of Hanoverian pattern table A spoons, Victorian maker novelty G C, propelling Newcastle pencil (date modelled not identified) as a carbine (4), 8.2 rifle oz with hinged butt-cap to enclose spare leads, stamped 'G. Wheeler Novr 9 Three 1840 no. silver-handled 454', 7.5 cmknives with steel blades, to/w a wine funnel spout by Hester Bateman and a badger-bristle shaving brush, the A white pair metal of pierced handle silver cast bonbon as a coat dishes of arms on flared surmounted foot-rims, by a Sheffield coronet 1923, to/w a small pierced basket, Birmingham 1922, 8.7 oz, to/w a A Continental Victorian cranberry white metal glass miniature scent flask part tea with service floral-chased and various silver screwtop, C C May & Sons, Birmingham 1895, to/w a small globular cut glass scent bottle with silver hinged bun cover, Mappin Bros., An early Victorian Scottish silver fiddle pattern caddy spoon, maker J

14 F., Glasgow 1838 Seven various silver napkin rings, to/w an engraved cigarette case Cased and similar silver vesta flatware case, - set Birmingham of twelve coffee 1912 spoons with bean finials, Sheffield 1921, set of six pastry forks with serving fork, Birmingham 1917, a pair of Victorian pickle forks with ivory handles, Sheffield Two cased part sets of seal-top teaspoons with tongs - Sheffield Various 1919/London oddments 1921, of 8.7 silver, oz, 25 including piecesbutter knives, inkwell, handmirror, pill-box, pair of pierced bonbon dishes, to/w electroplated wares, etc. (box) A silver four-piece tea service on pad feet, Albert Henry Thompson, A Sheffield large silver 1921, salver 50.9 in oz the gross Georgian manner, with shell and scroll border, on three claw and ball supports, Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ltd., London 1929, 39.2 oz, 38 cm diameter A late Victorian silver water jug with banded neck and reeded scroll handle, Zacheriah Barraclough & Sons, Birmingham 1894, 19.5 oz An Edwardian pair of silver four-division toast-racks on ball feet, A Fordham William & IV Faulkner, silver baluster Sheffield Christening 1904, 6.9 mug oz with scrolling handle and applied trailing oak decoration, Edward, Edward Jnr., John & William A Barnard, Victorian London pierced 1835, silver 4.6 drum oz, 10 mustard cm high with overall foliate-engraved hinged cover and scroll handle, Edward Pairpoint & George Wood, London An 1856, Art to/w Deco a style helmet circular cream bonbon jug, Thomas dish with Ducrow, radiating Birmingham pleated design, 1900 on flared foot, Wilson & Gill, Birmingham 1929, 5.3 oz, 17.5 cm, to/w an Edwardian cased pair of heavy quality napkin rings, Edward Two heavy quality silver sauce boats in the Georgian manner, A Birmingham late Victorian 1906 silver and sugar London basin 1948, of lobed 13 ozform, with twin pierced handles and moulded foot, Samuel Walton Smith, London 1899, 10.5 A cm George diameter, III letter to/w salver a sauce with boat gadrooned with cut rim, scroll and three handle foliate and and hoof ball feet, later engraving, Daniel Smith & Robert Sharp, London 1786, A 13 George oz, 20.5 III cm silver chamberstick with beaded and foliate moulded rim, Makepeace & Carter, London 1777, 14 cm diameter, the contemporary detachable grease-pan by Jones & Scofield A George III Adam silver caster on square base, George Smith II and A Thomas heavy quality Hayter, silver London set 1793, of six 3.6 Hanoverian oz, 17 cm rat-tail high soup spoons, to/w six matching sundae spoons and a sauce ladle, Harrison Brothers & A Howson, pair of George Sheffield III 1924/26 OEP silver (13), ladles, 26.9 oz Eley & Fern, London 1804, to/w a fiddle pattern sifter ladle, maker W. E., also London 1804 and A a fiddle pair of pattern Georgian tablespoon, silver sugar Henry nips Nutting of scrolling (or Hannah design, Northcote), maker I M and assay marks only, to/w a fiddle pattern sauce ladle, Richard A Pierce, modern London design 1818 silver (2) preserve spoon, the stem modelled as a chicken bone, maker L M (not identified), London Jubilee marked A 1977, pair to/w of Victorian a set of silver six Silver fiddle Jubilee pattern teaspoons, sauce ladles, Birmingham Elizabeth 1977, Eaton, a London 1854, to/w two fiddle pattern preserve spoons, London 1852/65 and a pair of tongs with claw bowls, Martin, Hall & Co.,