BOOKS, MUSIC & SERIOUS ART AT THE UNEXPECTED HOUSE
By Ben Rogers Jones
If I was to pinpoint the birthplace of art collecting in Wales in the twentieth-century, it would undoubtedly be the outskirts of Tregynon, near Newtown in Powys.
Our pilgrimage to this historic site starts near the village when we turn onto a woodland drive. The carriageway, known as Galloping Drive, is long; dog walkers and speed bumps force the foot from the pedal. This slow approach is fitting preparation for the magnificent spectacle of the old-world sanctuary that awaits.
For first-time visitors, the sheer scale of Gregynog Hall as it appears through the trees will be a surprise. But then, Gregynog is a Welsh house of the unexpected.
Grade I listed gardens surround the colossal building. They are the beating heart of a 750 acre estate. The gardens include elements of eighteenth-century designs by Sir William Emes, who created nearby Powis Castle gardens. But the gardens are much older, elements date from the 1500s. Much is now a National Nature Reserve. The Great Wood, to the rear of the Hall, comprises ancient oaks and rare lichens and is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest.
In 1920, wealthy heiresses Gwendoline and Margaret Davies purchased Gregynog Hall — initially to establish a residential centre dedicated to training in the arts and crafts for soldiers and those affected by war. In 1924, however, it became the sisters’ home.
The Davies sisters were granddaughters of the Victorian industrialist David Davies “Top Sawyer” of nearby Llandinam. They were devout Calvinistic Methodists and possessed a deep social conscience. The sisters contributed to a wide range of philanthropic causes. They also shared a love for music and art. Gwendoline and Margaret were prolific and passionate collectors of paintings, sculptures and prints, and they believed in the spiritual value of art.
So, at Gregynog Hall they established their centre for art and crafts, music-making, and debate. By this time, their now worldrenowned collection of nineteenth-century French painting and sculpture was very near complete. After 1920, they made few major acquisitions as they focussed attentions on their philanthropic endeavours.
The sisters’ Impressionist and Post-impressionist paintings, eighteenth and nineteenth-century British painting, sculptures by Rodin and Degas, and some Old Masters too, were transferred from their family home at Plas Dinam to Gregynog.
Gwendoline and Margaret owned artworks by Botticelli, El Greco, Turner, Gainsborough, Wilson, Millet, Corot, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Rodin, and Augustus John. These works hung throughout Gregynog Hall. In the Music Room, composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst and Edward Elgar heard their compositions performed at festivals staged for the benefit of invited audiences who were surrounded by masterpieces. It must have been an unbelievable sight. In return, guests were encouraged to give generously to the sisters’ chosen charities.
After Gwendoline and Margaret’s deaths in 1951 and 1963, their respective art collections were bequeathed to the Nation and can now can be seen at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff.
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As the sisters hoped, their collections serve to introduce the people of Wales to some of the best of European art. They also set an example for collecting practices in Wales and for the ownership of ‘serious’ pictures. In that respect, Gregynog Hall was a vital launch pad for the Welsh art market, and for that we should be grateful.
Wider arts and crafts activities at the Hall ceased when Gregynog became the sisters’ home. Only the art of fine printing continued in workshops set up in Gregynog’s stables courtyard. In 1922, the sisters, guided by their friend and mentor Dr Thomas Jones, a senior civil servant and educator, founded a press that was to become unique among British private presses in that the entire book production was undertaken on site — the design, type casting and type setting, the boxwood engraving of the illustrations, printing, and the binding.
Under the Controllership of Robert Ashwin Maynard and from 1930 Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gregynog Press earned international acclaim and is now considered to be one of the world’s great private presses. Much of the printing from 1927 to 1936 was carried out by the consummate pressman Herbert John Hodgson. He had previously worked on the 1926 edition of T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Artist-engravers, printers and binders were all salaried and lived on site in estate properties.
In 1925, the Press was fortunate to enlist the fine bookbinder George Fisher. He introduced special full-leather bindings of exceptional quality. Gregynog was one of the first private presses to pay particular attention to fine bindings.
At the outset of the Second World War, the Press closed having printed forty-two books and well over two hundred items of ephemera. For eighteen years, Gregynog Press had been at the forefront of fine book production.
In 1978, after a thirty-eight year hiatus, the Press was reopened and production resumed under the Welsh title Gwasg Gregynog. The relaunch was made possible through the endeavours of Michael Hutchins, a Gregynog Arts Fellow from Camberwell College who spent much of 1975 and 1976 labouring over R. S. Thomas’s Laboratories of the Spirit. This sought-after book, the first off the Press in decades, is available to bidders in this April’s Welsh Sale. The Press was once more up and running and active.
In 1999, the Press was commissioned to produce the inaugural document for the opening of the National Assembly for Wales. In celebration of the occasion, the first instrument of Welsh government for more than 600 years, a 250 limited edition souvenir volume was printed. Two special editions of this publication are available in this April’s Welsh Sale.
2002 saw the production of one of Gwasg Gregynog’s most successful publications. Cutting Images is a delightful collection of 50 linocuts by Sir Kyffin Williams. Spectacularly, it sold out three weeks after its launch. Sir Kyffin was a generous supporter of Gwasg Gregynog. We are very pleased to offer three copies of this publication in the auction including a very special rare edition. Also in the same sale, we have a fine volume from 2002 — a new translation of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with an arresting portrait of the author commissioned from Aberystwythbased artist Neil Holland.
Other volumes offered in the auction include the superb edition of Thomas Pennant’s tours of North Wales, entitled Pennant and his Welsh Landscapes. With bold, colourful woodcuts by Rigby Graham, and design by Robert Meyrick, this edition sold out well in advance of its launch at the National Museum of Wales.
Another extraordinary magnum opus in the Welsh Sale, Of a Feather, is an avian alphabet of collective nouns written and illustrated by Colin See-Paynton, and includes a foreword by Sir David Attenborough.
As Professor Robert Meyrick, who served on the Editorial Board of Gwasg Gregynog at that time, and designed some of their books, points out:
“The 20th-century private presses were a legacy of the 1890s Arts and Crafts Movement. They grew out of a belief that technology and mass production had destroyed craft and led to a decline in standards. William Morris’s answer was to reinstate the medieval community of craftsmen and return to historical hand-printing methods – thereby reaffirming John Ruskin’s belief in the joy that is to be derived from workmanship. Artisans who take pride in and responsibility for their craft, he believed, would be personally fulfilled by the community function of meaningful work.”
“The high standards established at Gregynog by Robert Maynard were maintained to the end. The Press made a major contribution to the history of the illustrated book in Britain and to the private press movement. Their bindings, in design and execution, invariably excel those of other private press.”
“Any study of British private presses reveals that each had its own characteristics, eccentricities, ideologies, design preferences, historical sources and typographic peculiarities. All strove for unity and harmony of design, materials and construction: the papers, inks, typography, illustrations, decoration and bindings individually designed according to the demands of the text.”
And there is no better way to understand this than to handle the book — to own one perhaps — and to see, feel and smell for yourselves what makes private press books – especially Gregynog books – so special.
The books included in this Welsh Sale form part of a magnificent one-owner collection of Gwasg Gregynog books from a Swansea home. They present a fantastic opportunity to start a collection of the cream of Welsh book production, or to add to an existing library.
We do ask that the books are only handled by those with a serious intent to bid and that viewing is done by prearranged appointment prior to the day of the auction.
I would highly recommend a visit to Gregynog Hall this summer – no appointment necessary. It truly is a remarkable house that exceeds expectations. The gardens and woodland walks are fantastic, and the house itself is an important landmark in Welsh art history.
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LLYFRAU, CERDDORIAETH
A CHELFYDDYD O BWYS MEWN TŶ ANNISGWYL
Gan Ben Rogers Jones ganrif bron wedi’i gwblhau. Ar ôl 1920, ychydig iawn o gasglu wnaethon nhw, gan ganolbwyntio yn hytrach ar eu hymdrechion dyngarol.
Pe bawn i’n nodi man geni casglu celf yng Nghymru yn yr ugeinfed ganrif, byddai’n ddiamau ar gyrion Tregynon, ger y Drenewydd ym Mhowys.
Mae ein pererindod i’r safle hanesyddol hwn yn dechrau ger y pentref pan fyddwn yn troi i lawr lôn goedwig. Mae’r lôn hon yn hir; mae cerddwyr cŵn a thwmpathau cyflymder yn gorfodi’r droed i dynnu’r pwysau oddi ar y pedal. Arafu fel hyn yw’r paratoad priodol ar gyfer y noddfa sydd ar ben draw’r ffordd.
I ymwelwyr am y tro cyntaf, bydd maint Neuadd Gregynog wrth iddo ymddangos drwy’r coed yn ddigon o ryfeddod. Ond wedyn, mae Gregynog yn dŷ Cymreig o’r annisgwyl.
Mae gerddi rhestredig Gradd I yn amgylchynu’r adeilad anferth. Nhw yw calon ystâd 750 erw. Mae’r gerddi’n cynnwys elfennau o ddyluniad o’r ddeunawfed ganrif gan Syr William Emes, a ddyluniodd erddi Castell Powys gerllaw. Ond mae’r gerddi yn llawer hŷn, gydag elfennau yn dyddio o’r 1500au. Mae llawer bellach yn Warchodfa Natur Genedlaethol. Mae’r Goedwig Fawr, y tu ôl i’r Neuadd, yn cynnwys coed derw hynafol a chennau prin ac mae’n Safle o Ddiddordeb Gwyddonol Arbennig dynodedig.
Fel y gerddi, mae’r Neuadd ei hun yn hanesyddol ac yn ysblennydd.
Ym 1920, prynodd yr aeresau cyfoethog, Gwendoline a Margaret Davies, Neuadd Gregynog — i ddechrau er mwyn sefydlu canolfan breswyl i hyfforddi milwyr a’r rhai gafodd eu heffeithio gan ryfel yn y celfyddydau a chrefft. Ym 1924, fodd bynnag, daeth yn gartref i’r chwiorydd.
Roedd y chwiorydd Davies yn wyresau i’r diwydiannwr lleol, cyfoethog o oes Fictoria, David Davies o Landinam gerllaw. Roeddynt yn Fethodistiaid Calfinaidd cadarn, ac yn meddu ar gydwybod gymdeithasol ddofn. Fe gyfrannodd y chwiorydd at ystod eang o achosion dyngarol. Roeddent hefyd yn rhannu’r un cariad at gerddoriaeth a chelf. Roedd Gwendoline a Margaret yn gasglwyr toreithiog ac angerddol o baentiadau, cerfluniau a phrintiau, a chredent yng ngwerth ysbrydol celfyddyd.
Felly, yn Neuadd Gregynog fe sefydlon nhw eu canolfan ar gyfer celf a chrefft, creu cerddoriaeth, a thrafod. Erbyn hyn, roedd eu casgliad byd-enwog o baentiadau a cherfluniau Ffrengig o’r 19eg
Trosglwyddwyd paentiadau Argraffiadol ac Ôl-argraffiadol y chwiorydd, paentiadau Prydeinig o’r 18fed a’r 19eg ganrif, cerfluniau gan Rodin a Degas, a rhai’r Hen Feistri hefyd, o gartref eu teulu ym Mhlas Dinam i Gregynog.
Roedd Gwendoline a Margaret yn berchen ar weithiau celf gan Botticelli, El Greco, Turner, Gainsborough, Wilson, Millet, Corot, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Rodin, ac Augustus John. Roedd y gweithiau hyn yn hongian ledled Neuadd Gregynog. Yn yr Ystafell Gerdd, clywodd cyfansoddwyr fel Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst ac Edward Elgar eu cyfansoddiadau’n cael eu perfformio mewn cyngherddau a lwyfannwyd er budd cynulleidfaoedd gwadd a oedd wedi’u hamgylchynu gan gampweithiau. Mae’n rhaid ei bod yn olygfa anghredadwy. Yn gyfnewid, roedd gwesteion yn cael eu hannog i roi’n hael i elusennau dewisol y chwiorydd.
Ar ôl marwolaeth Gwendoline a Margaret ym 1951 a 1963, fe roddwyd eu casgliadau celf i’r Genedl ac maent bellach i’w gweld yn Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru yng Nghaerdydd. Fel yr oedd y chwiorydd wedi’i obeithio, mae eu casgliadau yn fodd i gyflwyno pobl Cymru i’r gelf Ewropeaidd gorau. Maent hefyd yn gosod esiampl ar gyfer arferion casglu yng Nghymru ac ar gyfer perchnogaeth lluniau ‘o bwys’. Yn hynny o beth, roedd Neuadd Gregynog yn fan lansio hollbwysig i’r farchnad gelf Gymreig, a dylem fod yn ddiolchgar am hynny.
Daeth gweithgareddau celf a chrefft ehangach yn y Neuadd i ben pan ddaeth Gregynog yn gartref i’r chwiorydd. Dim ond y grefft o argraffu cain a barhaodd mewn gweithdai a sefydlwyd yng nghwrt stablau Gregynog. Ym 1922, sefydlodd y chwiorydd wasg, dan arweiniad eu ffrind a’u mentor Dr Thomas Jones, uwch was sifil ac addysgwr. Fe ddaeth y wasg yn unigryw ymhlith gweisg preifat Prydain gan fod holl elfennau o gynhyrchu llyfr yn cael ei wneud o dan yr un to — y dyluniad, y deipograffeg, yr ysgythru bocs pren y darluniau, yr argraffu a’r rhwymo.
O dan reolaeth Robert Ashwin Maynard ac, o 1930, Blair HughesStanton, fe enillodd Gwasg Gregynog glod rhyngwladol ac mae bellach yn cael ei hystyried yn un o weisg preifat mawr y byd. Yn gyfrifol am lawer o’r gwaith argraffu o 1927 hyd 1936 roedd Herbert John Hodgson a fu’n gweithio cyn hynny ar rifyn 1926 o ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ gan T. E. Lawrence. Roedd arlunwyrysgythrwyr, argraffwyr a rhwymwyr, i gyd yn gyflogedig ac yn byw ar y safle mewn eiddo stad.
Ym 1925, bu’r Wasg yn ffodus i gael y rhwymwr llyfrau gwych, George Fisher i ddod atynt i weithio. Cyflwynodd rwymiadau lledr llawn arbennig oedd o ansawdd eithriadol. Gregynog oedd un o’r gweisg preifat cyntaf i roi sylw arbennig i rwymiadau cain.
Ar ôl dechrau’r Ail Ryfel Byd, daeth y wasg i ben ar ôl argraffu pedwar deg dau o lyfrau cain ac ymhell dros ddau gant o eitemau amrywiol. Am ddeunaw mlynedd serch hynny, roedd Gwasg Gregynog ar flaen y gad o ran cynhyrchu llyfrau cain.
Ym 1978, ar ôl bwlch o dri deg wyth mlynedd, ail-agorwyd y Wasg ac ailddechreuodd y cynhyrchu dan yr enw Cymraeg, Gwasg Gregynog. Daeth yr ail-lansiad yn bosibl trwy ymdrechion Michael Hutchins, Cymrawd Celfyddydau Gregynog o Goleg Camberwell a dreuliodd lawer o 1975 a 1976 yn llafurio dros lyfr Laboratories of the Spirit R. S. Thomas. Mae’r llyfr poblogaidd hwn, y cyntaf o’r Wasg ers degawdau, ar gael i gynigwyr yn Arwerthiant Cymreig mis Ebrill eleni. Roedd y Wasg unwaith eto ar ei thraed.
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Ym 1999, comisiynwyd y Wasg i gynhyrchu’r ddogfen gyntaf un ar gyfer agoriad Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru. I ddathlu’r achlysur hwn, eitem gyntaf llywodraeth Cymru ers dros 600 mlynedd, argraffwyd cofraglen o 250 argraffiad cyfyngedig. Mae dau rifyn arbennig o’r cyhoeddiad hwn ar gael yn Arwerthiant Cymreig mis Ebrill eleni.
Yn 2002, cynhyrchwyd un o’r cyhoeddiadau mwyaf llwyddiannus i Wasg Gregynog ei chynhyrchu erioed. Mae Cutting Images yn gasgliad hyfryd o 50 o doriadau leino gan Syr Kyffin Williams. Yn rhyfeddol, fe werthodd pob cyhoeddiad o fewn tair wythnos ar ôl ei lansio. Roedd Syr Kyffin yn gefnogwr hael o Wasg Gregynog.
Rydym yn falch iawn o gynnig tri chopi o’r cyhoeddiad hwn yn yr arwerthiant gan gynnwys un rhifyn prin, arbennig iawn.
Hefyd yn yr un arwerthiant, mae ganddom gyfrol gain o 2002 — cyfieithiad newydd o gerddi gan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gyda phortread trawiadol o’r awdur a gomisiynwyd gan yr artist Neil Holland o Aberystwyth.
Ymhlith y cyfrolau eraill a gynigir yn yr arwerthiant, mae rhifyn gwych o deithiau Thomas Pennant o amgylch Gogledd Cymru o’r enw ‘Pennant and his Welsh Landscapes’. Gyda thorluniau pren beiddgar, lliwgar gan Rigby Graham, a dyluniad gan Robert Meyrick, gwerthodd y rhifyn hwn allan ymhell cyn ei lansio yn Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru. Mae gwaith mawr hynod arall yn yr Arwerthiant Cymreig, Of a Feather, a ysgrifennwyd ac a ddarluniwyd gan Colin See-Paynton, ac yn cynnwys rhagair gan Syr David Attenborough.
Fel y mae’r Athro Robert Meyrick, a oedd ar Fwrdd Golygyddol Gwasg Gregynog ar y pryd, ac a gynlluniodd rai o’u llyfrau, yn nodi: “Roedd gweisg preifat yr 20fed ganrif yn etifeddiaeth i Fudiad Celf a Chrefft y 1890au. Fe dyfon nhw allan o’r gred bod technoleg a masgynhyrchu wedi dinistrio crefft ac wedi arwain at ddirywiad mewn safonau. Ateb William Morris oedd adfer y gymuned ganoloesol o grefftwyr a dychwelyd at ddulliau hanesyddol o brintio â llaw – a thrwy hynny, ail-gadarnhau cred John Ruskin yn y mwynhad sydd yn dod o grefftwaith. Credai y byddai crefftwyr sy’n ymfalchïo ac yn gyfrifol am eu crefft, yn cael teimlad o foddhad o wneud gwaith ystyrlon o fewn cymuned.
“Cafodd y safonau uchel a sefydlwyd yng Ngregynog gan Robert Maynard eu cynnal hyd y diwedd. Gwnaeth y Wasg gyfraniad mawr i hanes y llyfr darluniadol ym Mhrydain ac i fudiad y wasg breifat. Mae eu rhwymiadau, o ran dyluniad a’u gwneuthuriad, yn ddieithriad yn rhagori ar rai y gweisg preifat eraill.”
“Mae unrhyw astudiaeth o weisg preifat Prydeinig yn datgelu bod gan bob un ei nodweddion, ei hynodrwydd, ideolegau, hoffterau dylunio, ffynonellau hanesyddol a hynodion teipograffeg ei hun. Roedd pob un yn ymdrechu i gael undod a harmoni o ran dyluniad, deunyddiau ac adeiladwaith: roedd y papurau, inciau, teipograffeg, darluniau, addurniadau a rhwymiadau wedi’u dylunio’n yn unol â gofynion y testun.”
Does dim ffordd well o ddeall hyn na thrin a theimlo’r llyfr ei hun — bod yn berchen ar un efallai — a gweld, teimlo ac arogli, drosoch eich hunain, yr hyn sy’n gwneud llyfrau gwasg breifat – yn enwedig llyfrau Gregynog – mor arbennig.
Mae’r llyfrau sydd wedi’u cynnwys yn ein Harwerthiant Cymreig nesaf yn rhan o gasgliad godidog o lyfrau Gwasg Gregynog gan un perchennog o’i gartref yn Abertawe. Mae’n gyfle gwych i ddechrau casgliad eich hunain o’r goreuon o wneuthurwyr llyfrau Cymreig neu ychwanegu at lyfrgell sydd eisoes yn bodoli.
Gofynnwn i’r llyfrau gael eu trin gan gynigwyr o ddifrif yn unig a bod apwyntiad i’w gweld yn cael ei drefnu ymlaen llaw cyn diwrnod yr arwerthiant.
Byddwn hefyd yn argymell yn fawr eich bod yn ymweld â Neuadd Gregynog yr haf hwn. Mae’n wir yn dŷ rhyfeddol sy’n rhagori ar eich holl ddisgwyliadau. Mae’r gerddi a’r llwybrau gwych drwy’r coed, ac mae’r tŷ ei hun o bwys arwyddocaol yn hanes celf Cymru.
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Welsh Antiques & Welsh Ceramics including Swansea & Nantgarw Porcelain
Hên Bethau & Serameg Cymreig gan gynnwys Porslen Abertawe a Nantgarw
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EARLY WELSH FLAG (Y DDRAIG GOCH), circa 1960s, printed cotton with stitched edge and ‘British Made’ in the print, 43 x 88cms, affixed to short bamboo pole as originally used
Provenance: Women’s Institute Wales, private collection Bridgend
Comments: corner small tear, minor stain, small rust spots, otherwise very good £250-350
2 ‡ WELSH EMBROIDERED SAMPLER circa 1890s, alphabetical, numerical and pictorial, worked by Mona Llewellin, aged 7, worked with flora and fauna, 39 x 63cms
Provenance: from a former sea captain’s house in St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, private collection Ceredigion
Comments: unframed, colours have held well
£100-200
3 WELSH FOLK ART SLATE TEA CADDY circa 1850, with four hand-painted panels depicting North Wales landmarks, including Eagle Tower Caernarfon Castle, Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), Conwy Castle and Cader Idris, 23cms h
Provenance: private Collection Cheshire
Comments: lid finial damage
£200-300
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WELSH CARVED MINING DOCUMENTARY WALKING CANE of mining-strike interest, the handle carved as the head of a miner wearing helmet, the shaft incised with ‘matchstick’ figures with coal trucks, with pit pony, at the coalface, and a pair carrying an emergency stretcher, lift and wheelhouse above, engraved, ‘Fernhill Collieries, Stay in Strikes, Oct 17-22 1935, 141 Hours, Aug 28-Sep 9 1936, 292 Hours’, 88cms long
Provenance: private collection South Wales Valleys
Comments: chip to peak of helmet, ferrule missing £200-300
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RARE WELSH SCRIMSHAW PEARLY TURBAN SHELL SOUVENIR mid19th Century, relating to Ynys Mon (Anglesey) history, engineering and civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834), the commemorative shell engraved with a profile of the bridge over the Menai Straits engineered by Telford and which crosses from mainland Wales to the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Mon in Welsh), the bridge celebrates its bicentennial anniversary of completion in 2026, the shell inscribed ‘A Present from Menai Suspension Bridge’ and measurements for total length, height, length of chain and weight, also with the name ‘Glasynys’ (translation being Blue Isle) which may relate to the Welsh writer Owen Wynne Jones (1828-1870) who’s bardic name was Glasynys, 11cms wide
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Comments: very sl. losses to edges £200-300
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THE CAMBRIAN VISITOR WITH ENTRY BY WILLIAM WESTON YOUNG being ‘A Monthly Miscellany for The Principality of Wales and the Adjoining Counties’, January to August 1813, bound with its continuation
‘The Cambrian Magazine’, published Swansea, engraved frontispiece Swansea Castle, bookplate for Arthur Owen Evans Archdeacon of Bangor 1921, quarter calf, gilt titled spine, 8vo
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Auctioneer’s Notes: William Weston Young (1776-1847), the Quaker entrepreneur of Bristol and Glamorganshire, artist, botanist, wreck-raiser, surveyor, potter, and inventor of the firebrick and the major investor in the Nantgarw porcelain enterprise
Comments: corners bumped, boards worn, foxing to print £200-300
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EWENNY SLIPWARE POTTERY MODEL OF A SEATED PIG with coin slot at the top, yellow and brown glaze inscribed with ‘Take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves’, 19cms in length
Provenance: private collection Cheshire
Comments: both legs and both ears have been restored, minor nibbles around the coin slot, no signatures or attribution marks to underside # £400-700
Comments: glaze crazed commensurate with age, surface sticky-tape adhesive residue # £500-700 6
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RARE LLANELLY POTTERY COFFEE POT & COVER circa 1910, painted in the ‘Blackberry’ pattern with green banded borders, of baluster form with moulded dentil rim, half fluted body and reeded spout, printed mark, 23cms (h)
Provenance: deceased estate Newport
Notes: compare with a similar shaped, but wild rose-painted, coffee pot sold in these rooms, 20.2.16, lot 5
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CASSOLETTE circa 1806, elevated by three tall tapering square legs with moulded lions masks, over concave triangular base, undecorated frieze, reserved on blue ground, reversible cover, 29cms (h)
Provenance: deceased estate Newport
Auctioneer’s Notes: Cf. Jonathan Gray, The Cambrian Company, p. 151, pl. 6.16., and E. Morton Nance, The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw, (XVII)
Comments: small chips to foot, nibbles to floral knop, candle nozzle deficient # £150-250
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PEARLWARE CASSOLETTE circa 1806, elevated by three tall tapering square legs with moulded lion’s masks, over concave triangular base, finely painted below the rim with a band of polychrome acanthus, anthemion and seaweed ornament, reserved on blue ground, reversible candle holder/cover, 28.8-31.5cms (h)
Provenance: deceased estate Newport
Auctioneer’s Notes: Cf. Jonathan Gray, The Cambrian Company, p. 151, pl. 6.16. and p. 128 pl. 5.26, and E. Morton Nance, The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw, (XVII), and Sothebys 14-16.5.92, Sir Leslie Joseph Collection, lot 782 where the decoration is attributed to Thomas Pardoe
Comments: small chips to foot, nibbles to floral knop, crack to candle nozzle # £250-350
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PUZZLE JUG circa 1810, printed in blue with the ‘Longbridge’ pattern, intricately pierced neck and rim, 19cms (h)
Provenance: deceased estate Newport
Comments: overall good # £200-300
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SWANSEA ‘NAMED’ BLUE & WHITE TANKARD printed in black with cartouche ‘John Price Llanwrtyd’ reserved on a pattern of cows, figures and country house landscape 12cms (h)
Provenance: deceased estate Newport
Comments: glaze crazed, possible hairline to base of handle # £200-300
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SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY NAPOLEON JUG circa 1815, printed and coloured with caricatures with speech bubbles, beneath legend at neck “Bonaparte Dethron’d April 1st 1814”, signed in the print ‘engraved J. Brindley’, 14cms (h)
Provenance: deceased estate Newport
Auctioneer’s Notes: the Allies entered Paris on 31st March 1814 and whilst Napoleon did not abdicate until 6th April, clearly potters could not resist the temptation of declaring April Fool’s Day that of his downfall. Cf. David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, pls. 712a, b and c.; also Helen Hallesy, Swansea Commemorative Pottery, p. 120, pl. 12.3b
Comments: chips and wear on rim and spout # £250-300
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WILKINSON TOBY JUG designed by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould depicting the Right Honourable David Lloyd George holding a shell inscribed ‘Shell Out’, printed marks to base, facsimile signature and Sloane & Smith stamp, 25.5cms high Provenance: private collection Gwynedd, consigned during a valuation day event at the David Lloyd George Museum, Llanystumdwy
Comments: without restoration or damage # £300-400
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LIVERPOOL CREAMWARE ‘NAMED’ JUG OF CARDIGANSHIRE INTEREST
c.1810, probably Herculaneum, printed in black with foliate cartouche ‘Mary Moress, Quay, Cardigan’, between two large prints, one titled ‘Palemon & Lavinia’ above three line verse, black line borders and spout flourish, 21cms (h)
Provenance: deceased estate Newport, Auctioneer’s Notes: the location ‘Quay’ refers to New Quay, until the early 19th century the coastal village consisted of a few thatched cottages surrounded by agricultural land, the natural harbour providing a safe mooring for fishing boats and a few small trading vessels. Following the construction of a stone pier in 1834 trading activity increased, and new houses were built as economic migrants arrived. When shipbuilding commenced, the town increased in size with the construction of terraced housing up the slopes of the sheltered bay. By the 1840s, more than three hundred men were employed in building ships in New Quay and surrounding area
Comments: good all around with minor abrasions to the handle and spout only # £300-500
WELSH CERAMIC REFERENCE BOOKS INCLUDING UNIQUE SCRAP BOOK BY W J GRANT DAVIDSON comprising ‘The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw’ by E Morton Nance, ‘Nantgarw Porcelain’ and ‘The Nantgarw Porcelain Album’ by W. D. John, the W. J. Grant-Davidson British ceramic Library Reference Works, a Nantgarw Porcelain catalogue by Rowland Williams and a Sir Leslie Joseph Exhibition catalogue of Swansea Porcelain at the Vivian Gallery, Swansea (6)
Provenance: private collection Powys, Wallace James Grant-Davidson, FSA, FRSA, was a noted Swansea personality who had gained an international reputation as an expert in ceramics. He was the author of The Pottery of South Wales|: An Illustrated Guide
Comments: all in used condition, please examine # £100-150
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COLLECTION OF AUCTION CATALOGUES WITH WELSH PORCELAIN CONTENT mainly Sotheby’s 1960s / 70s / 80s, English and Welsh porcelain auctions from many important dispersals including well-known collections such as Sidney Heath, Miss Margaret Meager, Elis Jenkins, C W Kieft, Rt Hon the Lord Swansea, Sir David Llewellyn etc
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: appear to be in excellent condition overall, some annotations # £150-250
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SWANSEA PORCELAIN PART TEA SERVICE circa 1820, set pattern ‘251’, decorated with green and gilt leaf bands, comprising teapot, cover and stand, milk jug, and two plates, red script numeral and printed Swansea marks (5)
Provenance: deceased estate Newport
Comments: plates with some rim gilding rubbed, base of teapot with firing fault # £200-300
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SET OF FOUR SWANSEA PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES circa 1818-1820, in the Trident paste, each painted with sprays and sprigs of summer flowers, plain gilt rim, two with impressed Swansea marks, 19.6cms (diam.) (4)
Provenance: private collection Newport
Comments: rims gilding rubbed, firing faults and stacking wear # £200-300
20 SWANSEA DESSERT PLATE circa 1815-1817, painted by David Evans, the centre with spray of summer flowers, gilt cavetto band, C scroll moulded border picked out in gilt, 21.2cms (diam)
Provenance: private collection Bristol
Comments: very minor rubbed gilt to cavetto and rim # £300-400
21 SWANSEA PORCELAIN PLATE circa 1815-17, painted by Henry Morris with tight sprays of summer flowers in the centre and at the border, gilt rim, red ‘Swansea’ script mark, 20.5cms diam
Provenance: deceased estate Newport, compare with similar dishes offered Bonhams 8 Apr 2009, lots 226 & 227
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PAIR OF NANTGARW PORCELAIN FAN-HANDLED DESSERT DISHES circa 1813-1820, centres painted with sprays of three roses, within three flowers sprigs in the cavetto, gilt dentil border, gilt acanthus and fan handles, impressed mark, 21.7cms (w) (2)
Provenance: private collection Bristol
Comments: gilding rubbed # £300-400
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NANTGARW PORCELAIN
SQUARE DESSERT DISH circa 1817-1820, moulded c-scroll borders, painted by Thomas Pardoe with floral sprays including thorny rose, forget-me-not and chrysanthemum, a smaller spray to one side and floral sprigs in the border, within a chocolate rim, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 24cms wide
Auctioneer’s Notes: chocolate brown is usually associated with more naive local decoration rather than the sophisticated floral decoration as shown on this dish. Also note that the finely detailed petals in the orange chrysanthemum are the result of Pardoe wiping away the enamela technique which is more widely associated with the decoration of William Billingsley
Provenance: private collection
Surrey
Comments: rare dish in fresh condition, no structural issues, v. minor losses to rim decoration # £300-500
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DESSERT PLATE circa 1813-1820, painted by Moses Webster, with full blown summer flowers on a dentil moulded marble plinth, C-scroll moulded rim and gilt band, impressed mark, 21.6cms (diam)
Provenance: private collection
Bristol
Auctioneer’s Notes: Cf. E. Morton Nance, The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw, pl. CLXXII fig F for a similar Webster-painted plate featuring flowers on a plinth
Comments: very good # £400-600
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PAIR OF NANTGARW PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES circa 1813-1820, each painted with full blown roses and wild summer flowers, C-scroll moulded border and gilt band rim, impressed marks, 21.7cms (diam) (2)
Provenance: private collection
Bristol
Comments: gilt partially rubbed, one with small rim chip, other with ground foot-ring and chip to footring, worn glaze underneath # £400-600
PAIR OF NANTGARW PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES circa 1815-1821, moulded c-scroll borders, three sprays of flowers to each amongst scattered sprigs, both with three hovering insects, within gilt dentil rims, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 22cms diam
Provenance: private collection Surrey
Comments: wear to areas of enamelling # £400-600
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NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE circa 1818-1820, having a centred full flower spray including open pink rose, the border typically moulded with c-scrolls, forget-me-knots and tied ribbons which is unusually picked out in gold, six small rose sprigs to border, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 22cms diam
Provenance: private collection Surrey
Comments: excellent, gilding and decoration is fresh # £500-700
NANTGARW COFFEE CUP & SAUCER circa 1815-1818, painted finely with full blown roses and small insects, gilt dentil rims, kidneyshaped handle, saucer with unglazed base (2)
Provenance: private collection Bristol
Comments: rims regilded, handle with firing fault # £500-600
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NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE BRACE SERVICE circa 1818-1820, having C-scroll moulded border, painted in London, probably in the Bradley workshop, with a centred flower spray including open roses, the border with six panels painted with three flower sprigs, two colourful birds on twigs and a single panel of fruit including pear, gilt dentil rim, impressed NANT-GARW CW to base, 21.5cms diam
Provenance: private collection Surrey
Auctioneer’s Notes: ‘The Brace Service’, after a square dish with the same decorative scheme presented to the Rt. Hon. William Brace, P.C. illustrated by W D John ‘Album.’ (1948)
Comments: v. good, without damage or restoration, sl. wear to gilding as expected, one of a pair in this auction (see next lot) # £600-800
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NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE BRACE SERVICE circa 1818-1820, having C-scroll moulded border, painted in London, probably in the Bradley workshop, with a centred flower spray including open rose, the border with six panels painted with three flower sprigs, two colourful birds on twigs and a single panel of fruit including peach and strawberries, gilt dentil rim, impressed NANT-GARW CW to base, 21.5cms diam
Provenance: private collection Surrey
Auctioneer’s Notes: ‘The Brace Service’, after a square dish with the same decorative scheme presented to the Rt. Hon. William Brace, P.C. illustrated by W D John ‘Album.’ (1948)
Comments: v. good, without damage or restoration, sl. wear to gilding as expected, one of a pair in this auction (see previous lot) # £600-800
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PORCELAIN PLATES circa 1817-1820, with large central floral spray to the interior and highly gilded borders around four further sprigs, gilt dentil rims, impressed marks NANT GARW CW to bases, 21.5cms diam
Provenance: private collection Surrey
Comments: minor gilding loss only # £700-1,200
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NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE circa 1817-1820. non-moulded border, decorated with large full floral spray and two insects, segmented blue line to the cavetto, the border with five sprays within a gilt dentil rim, two insects to underside, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 23cms diam
Provenance: private collection Surrey
Comments: superb example with stunning enamels, sl. wear to petals of one, to match two further plates (see next lots) # £700-1,000
NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE circa 1817-1820. non-moulded border, interior decorated with large full floral spray and two insects, segmented blue line to the cavetto, the border with five sprays and one insect within a gilt dentil rim, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 23cms diam
Provenance: private collection Surrey
Comments: superb example with stunning enamels, to match two further plates (see previous / next lots) # £700-1,000
NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE circa 1817-1820. non-moulded border, interior decorated with large full floral spray and four insects, segmented blue line to the cavetto, the border with five sprays within a gilt dentil rim, two insects to underside, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 23cms diam
Provenance: private collection Surrey
Comments: superb example with stunning enamels, to match two further plates (see previous lots) # £800-1,200
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THE WELSH SALE/ YR ARWERTHIANT CYMREIG
Gregynog Press Books
Llyfrau Gwasg Gregynog
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: PENNANT AND HIS WELSH LANDSCAPES very fine limited edition (9/20) with special binding of ‘Pennant and his Welsh Landscapes - Selected Reading from A Tour in Wales (1778-1784)’ executed by James Brockman, to include full set of twenty-seven editioned prints, in a drop-back box, edited by Gwyn Walters, woodcuts by Rigby Graham, designed by Robert Meyrick, printed by David Vickers
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: complete with certificate, appears unopened £500-1,000
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS ITINERY THROUGH WALES 1989 limited edition (110/280), edited by Brynley F. Roberts, illustrated with wood engravings by Colin See-Paynton, quarter-leather bound, designed and printed by David Esslemont, outer case
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: fine condition £200-300
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: OF A FEATHER extra special limited edition (7/15) folio size volume, with special full leather binding designed and executed by Julian Thomas, titled ‘Of a Feather: Avian Collective Nouns & Terms of Assembly, Group Names & Associated Terms’ compiled, designed and illustrated with 61 wood engravings (31 full page) by Colin See-Paynton, forwarded by David Attenborough outer box and ephemera
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: fine condition, sl. surface marks to outer box as expected £600-1,000
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: OF A FEATHER very fine 2008 folio size limited edition (5/150) ‘Of a Feather: Avian Collective Nouns & Terms of Assembly, Group Names & Associated Terms’, bound by John Sewell in quarter leather, written, compiled, designed and illustrated with 61 wood engravings (31 full page) by Colin SeePaynton, forwarded by David Attenborough, packaging box and ephemera
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Auctioneer’s Note (Gwasg Gregynog): Colin See-Paynton has spent more than four years in extensively researching and writing the text, and creating the sixty-one new wood engravings for this illustrated lexicon of avian collective nouns: an unprecedented achievement. In a critical essay David Alston, Arts Director of the Arts Council Wales, writes: ‘not since Thomas Bewick, who both wrote and engraved in the late eighteenth century, have both literary and pictorial aspects been found conjoined in the one talent as here in this work’. That the observation and study of the natural world has been a lifelong interest is evident both from the engravings and the enthusiasm revealed in the text. From ‘Abandonment of Cuckoos’ to ‘Zephyr of Long-Tailed Titmice’ it enriches our knowledge of avian nomenclature far beyond the well-known ‘Gaggle of Geese’ - though that, too, is included
Comments: fine condition, a beautiful volume for ornithology enthusiasts and book collectors £400-700
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rare 2003 limited edition (2/9) Welsh language ‘Casgliad o Nodau Clustiau Defaid Maldwyn
a’i Hanesion’ (A Collection of Montgomery Sheep’s Ears and Histories), specially published for Eisteddod Genedlaethol Maldwyn, 2003, illustrations by Carlos Pinatti and Christine Mills, printed and bound at Gregynog by Eric Franklin, David Vickers and Alan Wood, beautifully presented in a sack-clothed drop-back outer and a wove sack fastened with wooden peg
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: fine condition
£150-250
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: PARZIVAL AND THE HOLY GRAIL 1990 limited edition (44/195) ‘Wolfram Von Eschenbach - The Romance of Parzival and the Holy Grail’ retold by Carl Lofmark, wood engravings by Stefan Mroewski, one of ninety-five copies bound in quarterleather by Alan Wood
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: fine condition
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PRESS: PENNANT AND HIS WELSH LANDSCAPES 2006 folio size limited edition (125/150) ‘Pennant and his Welsh Landscapes - Selected readings from A Tour in Wales (1778-1784)’, bound by John Sewell, and presented in a slipcase, edited by Gwyn Walters, woodcuts by Rigby Graham
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: fine condition, surface marks to outers only £300-500
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: AGNES MILLER PARKER WOOD ENGRAVINGS (2 x) both volumes similarly presented and comprising (1) 1996 limited edition (38/185) ‘Agnes Miller Parker Wood Engravings from the Fables of Esope - The Story of a Remarkable Book’’, outer case together with (2) 1997 limited edition (38/185) ‘Agnes Miller Parker Wood Engravings from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales’, outer case,
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: both in slipcases, very fine £200-400
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: SELBORNE 1988 limited edition (60/200) ‘Wood Engravings by Gertrude Hermes, being Illustrations to Selborne with Extracts from Gilbert White’, mouldmade paper bound in quarter cloth, printed at Gregynog Press by David Esslemont, with accompanying two-fold edition details
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: in good condition £200-300
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: WRENCHING TIMES 1991 limited edition special binding (17/30) ‘Poems from Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman - Wrenching Times’, selected by M Wynn Thomas, bound in quarter leather, wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec who resided at Gregynog January to June 1991, designed and printed by David Esslemont, bound by Alan Wood and Rhian Ticehurst
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: fine condition £400-600
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: THE SPECIAL BINDINGS OF GWASG GREGYNOG 2004 limited edition (4/15) ‘The Special Bindings of Gwasg Gregynog - An Illustrated Catalogue of the Special Bindings Produced at Gwasg Gregynog between 1977 and 2002’, compiled and introduced by Anthony Dowd and with a memoir by James Brockman, bound by James Brockman, presented in drop-back box, printed by David Vickers and bound by John Sewell, with images of title pages and volumes published by the press, outer case in the form of a book
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: very fine, case has surface marks, excellent overall £300-400
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: MISCELLANEA Red Box Edition, containing at least 35 pieces, signed prints, special items and selection of booklets, with extra items, presented in drop-back box
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: fine condition £300-400
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES FACSIMILE-SPECIAL 1998 Gregynog commissioned souvenir limited edition (6/16) declaration of ‘Government of Wales Act 1998’ being a facsimile of the inaugural document which was signed by HM The Queen at the opening of the National Assembly for Wales, hand bound in green full cloth, blocked in gold and presented in a slipcase (there were specially-annotated copies available for Assembly members), signed by printer and binders David Vickers, Alan Wood and Eric Franklin, cased with accompanying ephemera
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: fine condition £200-400
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: THE ROMANTICS IN WALES AN ANTHOLOGY 2009 limited edition (9/150) in quarter leather binding, edited by Glyn Tegai Hughes, illustrated with wood engravings by Hilary Paynter, designed and printed by David Vickers
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: fine condition, small bump to presentation sleeve £200-400
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FACSIMILE-SPECIAL Gregynog commissioned souvenir limited edition (11/16) of the ‘Statutory Instrument of the National Assembly for Wales’, presented to the assembly by the Law Society 27th June 2000, hand bound in red full cloth, blocked in gold and presented in a drop-back outer, signed by printer and binders David Vickers, Alan Wood and Eric Franklin, with accompanying ephemera
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: fine condition
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: LABORATORIES OF THE SPIRIT important 1976 limited edition (120/200) ‘Laboratories of the Spirit’ by R S Thomas, quarter leather with boards covered in specially printed cloth, an important volume being the first book produced by Gwasg Gregynog for over thirtyyears, the paper is from Gregynog Press stock before 1940 and was printed using much of the original equipment, designed and printed by Michael Hutchins, outer box
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: fine condition
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS: A MACHYNLLETH TRIAD 1993 limited edition (26/50) by Jan Morris CBE (1926-2020), bound in quarter goat’s skin, illustrations by Brenda Berman, slipcase
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: good overall, fading, surface marks to spine and outer case £200-300
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1991 limited edition (19/400) ‘Poems from Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman - Wrenching Times’, selected by M Wynn Thomas, bound in quarter leather, wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec who resided at Gregynog January to June 1991, designed and printed by David Esslemont, bound by Alan Wood and Rhian Ticehurst
Provenance: private collection Swansea
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LIBRARY OF SIXTEEN GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS PUBLICATIONS comprising (1) Agnes Miller Carter, limited edition (8/15) special binding, wood engravings from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales, John Sampson and the Gypsies of Wales by Ian Rogers, fine condition (2) Cerddi Waldo Williams, limited edition (9/250), written and illustrated by J. E. Caerwyn Williams and Rhian Davies, (3) Gwendolin Seventy Five Years On’, limited ‘red box’ edition, one of 25, (4) ‘Cathedral Builders and Other Poems’ by John Ormond, limited edition (16/50), with drawings by the author, (5) ‘A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing at Gregynog, 1970-1990’ by David Esslemont & Glyn Tegai Hughes, limited edition (791/900), quarter leather copy by Alan Wood, one of one hundred bindings, (6) ‘Gregynog Poets’, limited edition (23/400), series of twelve poems by some of the best known poets in Wales, selected by Meic Stephens, each poem presented individually and accompanied by a specially commissioned wood engraving, presented in Solander drop-back box, (7) Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) limited edition (12/200) volume of Goethe Poems bound in quarter leather and printed on mould-made paper at Gwasg Gregynog 2000, (8) ‘Cerddi Robert Williams Parry’, limited edition (6/200), in quarter green goatskin, blind rule, with green buckram boards, the title blind embossed on upper cover and titles in gold to spine, printed in 1980, (9) ‘Inwards Where All the Battle’, limited edition (4/300) a selection of Alun Lewis’s writings from India, with drawings by David Gentleman, bound in quarter-leather and printed by Gwasg Gregynog, 1997, (10) ‘Emynau Williams Pantycelyn’, limited edition (32/100) quarter leather binding, (11) ‘David Lewis Jones - A Tribute’, limited edition (9/30) in full cloth binding, (12) ‘Lazarillo de Tormes’, limited edition (9/80) quarter leather bound, drawn out of Spanish by David Rowland with wood engravings by Frank Martin, (13) The Story of the Afanc King & The Sons of Teyrnon’, limited edition (55/200), with words by Christopher Meredith, images by Sara Philpott, (14) ‘Hwiangerddi’ by O M Edwards, limited edition (6/100), quarter leather bound by Alan Wood, illustrations by Jac Jones, (15) ‘The Lost Children’ by Byron Rogers, 2005, limited edition (4/300), in red cloth slipcase, (16) ‘Gwyddau Yng Ngregynog (Geese at Gregynog)’, limited edition (42/250) R. Gerald Jones, wood engravings by Colin See-Paynton £1,000-2,000
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The Pat Llewellyn Collection: The Visions of a Television Visionary
Casgliad Pat Llewellyn: Gweledigaeth y Cynhyrchydd Teledu
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WELSH & ENGLISH LANGUAGE WOOLWORK SAMPLER showing Adam and Eve flanking the apple tree, above ‘Elizabeth Thomas Her Work aged 15’ dated 1845, and containing ‘...fy enaid bendithia yr Arglwydd..’ (The Lord is forgiving and gracious), at the base the names of John and Lewis (thought to be brothers of Elizabeth), dated again 1825, 36 x 35cms (incl. frame)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent
Comments: framed and glazed £400-600
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VICTORIAN WELSH LANGUAGE WOOLWORK SAMPLER worked by Alice Jones, dated 1877, Welsh language version of Proverb 14:26 translated by William Morgan ‘Yn ofn yr Arglwydd y mae gobaith cadarn: ac i’w blant ef y bydd noddfa’ (In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge) with Adam and Eve beside apple tree and additional trees, birds and flowers, 76 x 61cms (incl. frame)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent
Comments: framed and glazed £700-1,200
VICTORIAN WOOLWORK SAMPLER, dated 1890, very well and profusely worked in different colours by Elizabeth Davies, alphabetical and pictorial with centred house surrounded by many items of flora and fauna, 72 x 76cms (incl. frame)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent
Comments: colours good, framed and glazed, very good example £500-1,000
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WELSH ELM AND BEECH YOKE-BACK CHAIR, 18th Century, north Pembrokeshire or Cardiganshire, thick shaped seat-rail above three vase splats, thick dished seat with shaped back edge, on three hand shaped legs mortised and wedged through the seat, 70 (h) x 77 (w) x 36cms (d)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: generally good with wear commensurate with age £1,000-1,500
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WELSH OAK, ELM & ASH YOKEBACK CHAIR 18th Century, probably Cardiganshire, thick shaped rail above three rectangular splats, demilune seat on hand shaped legs mortised and wedged through the seat, 75 (w) x 54 (d) x 76cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: legs slightly loose, back part of seat split and repaired £800-1,200
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WELSH ELM AND ASH ARMCHAIR c. 1800, probably Swansea Valley, of ‘lobster-pot’ form, the back of seven tapering spindles, gently drawn-in and secured by a slightly curved cresting rail, the angular arm bow with splayed rounded-ends above further side spindles and turned uprights, the elm saddleseat with flat front, on turned legs joined by H-stretcher, 65 (w) x 61 (d) x 114cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: underside of seat inscribed in ink “This chair resided in the waiting room of DTM Jones Solicitors, 18 Market Sq., Landovery until 1960. ‘There were so many chairs it became a social meeting place’“. Seat with metal strap repairs, bowed arms with old repairs and damage, spindle joint to cresting rail chipped £800-1,200
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WELSH OAK INLAID CHEST ON STAND early 18th Century and later, Glamorgan, with double plank top with cyma recta moulding, above arrangement of graduated drawers, with double-reeded rail-applied mouldings, the short drawers inlaid with pairs of scrolled tulips, further curvilinear line inlay to the remaining drawers of the upper-section, the central drawer also foliate-inlaid, flanked by simple line-inlaid drawers, all over a triple-arcaded apron, the lower part of the stand later, with baluster-turned legs, concave-shaped flat stretchers and bun feet, brass drop handles, 98 (w) x 58 (d) x 144.5cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Auctioneer’s Notes: although the legs, stretchers and feet of the stand are later it is interesting to note that a box-on-stand, with similar south Glamorgan regional inlay and dated 1734, illustrated R. Bebb, Welsh Furniture 1250-1850: A Cultural History of Craftsmanship and Design (2007), p. 65, fig. 740, also has original legs, stretchers and feet in the 17th century style. It is therefore feasible that the base of the stand is re-constructed to the original design. For further illustrated Welsh oak furniture with this regional inlay, possibly from one particular workshop, see ibid., pages 66, 68-70. The author notes that on all pieces ‘the inlay was delicate and restrained covering only a small area, relating to the space rather than merely filling it, and accentuated the main parts as opposed to using them as simply a base for ostentatious decoration. There was a balance between ornament and the shape of the piece, whose necessary heavy proportions were lightened and given movement and rhythm’
Comments: good overall, some elements later £1,500-2,000
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SYCAMORE & ASH ‘CHEESE TOP’ CRICKET TABLE, late 18th Century, believed Welsh, single-piece circular top on three hand shaped legs morticed and wedged through the top, 44.5cms (diam) x 58cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: top repair £800-1,200
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OAK AND ASH CRICKET TABLE, late 18th C., believed Welsh, oak and ash, circular top raised on three hand-shaped legs united by T-shaped stretcher, 45cms (diam) x 55cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017).
Comments: top shrunk and rejoined, old nailed repairs through the top £500-700
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WELSH ASH & OAK ARMCHAIR, late 18th Century, probably Montgomeryshire, six-spindle back united by straight cresting rail, slightly bowed arms on spindles, seat with straight front raised on hand shaped splayed legs morticed and wedged through the seat, 51(w) x 60 (d) x 85cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: one arm with old damage to end, other with wear, good proportions, lovely colour and patina £800-1,200
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WELSH OAK & ASH COMBBACK ARMCHAIR late 18th Century, Cardiganshire, the back of seven spindles secured by a slightly curved cresting rail, the angular arm bow above further side spindles, the seat with shaped front, on hand shaped splayed legs joined by H-stretcher, 56 (w) x 39 (d) x 99cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: old metal repairs above and below the seat, seat front repaired or is possibly later £1,000-1,500
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RARE PRIMITIVE WELSH OAK, ELM & ASH BACKSTOOL late 18th Century, the single archshaped back board pierced with heart motif, mortise and tenon-jointed through the seat and held in place by two faceted pegs, the form of the thick seat partly determined by the natural shape of the timber (making full use of the heart-wood), raised on three hand-shaped legs, mortised and wedged through the seat, 34.5 (w) x 38.5 (d) x 89cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Auctioneer’s Notes: similar primitive backstool in the Hereford City Museum and Art Gallery collection. Illustrated Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (2016), p. 55, fig. 2:46. The explanatory text notes that this was ‘the first and most simple development from the primary stool, here with a single narrow vertical board acting as a backrest. An extremely rare type, but commonly plagiarised in reproductions and referred to as a ‘spinning-chair’
Comments: excellent patina, back board loose, age cracks and chips commensurate with age £1,500-2,500
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BELIEVED WELSH ELM & ASH ARMCHAIR late 18th Century, fourteen spindles below square shaped joined armrest, on splayed circular section, legs mortised and wedged through the square seat, 62 (w) x 42 (d) x 66cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Auctioneer’s Notes: these chairs are commonly found with comb backs where the rear spindles continue through the back rail to a uniting cresting rail. However, this chair appears to have been made in this form originally
Comments: old worm to front rail, legs slightly loose
£500-700
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WELSH ELM & ASH STICK BACK ARMCHAIR, c.1800, probably Carmarthenshire, the arched back above seven spindles, bisecting joined arms with tapered ends and supported on ten further spindles, D-shaped seat with flat front, on slightly splayed circular section legs mortised and wedged through the seat, H-stretcher, 63 (w) x 62 (d) x 100cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: good overall with lovely honey gold patina £700-1,000
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WELSH ELM & ASH YOKE BACK ARMCHAIR late 18th Century, Pembrokeshire or Cardiganshire, the bowed back with low crest and flat scrolled arms supported on nine spindles, above shaped oval seat with natural knots to the flat front, on splayed legs mortised and wedged through the seat, remains of original claret-brown paint, 79 (w) x 40 (d) x 71cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: lovely patina and wear £800-1,200
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Comments: generally good with wear commensurate with age £500-700
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WELSH ELM AND ASH YOKE-BACK CHAIR, late 18th Century, U-shaped joined seat-rail above nine spindles, D-shaped seat with flat front, on shaped legs mortised and wedged through the seat, joined by matching H-stretcher, remains of black paint, 81 (h) x 64 (w) x 53cms (d)
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WELSH ELM & ASH COMB-BACK ARMCHAIR, circa 1800, probably Carmarthenshire, the back of seven spindles secured by a shaped cresting rail and bisecting the U-shaped arm bow supported by six further spindles/shaped supports, the saddle seat with applied shaped front, on hand shaped slightly splayed legs joined by H-stretcher, 53 (w) x 47 (d) x 95cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: wear and patina commensurate with age £800-1,200
71 PAIR PRIMITIVE JOINED OAK LONG BENCHES, 19th Century, on A-shaped trestle end supports mortised through the seats, 187 (w) x 38 (d) x 48.5cms (h) (2)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: good overall patina, old wear to ends £600-800
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GEORGE III WELSH OAK MURAL SPOON RACK, pierced tall two-piece back applied with two lateral rails for fourteen spoons, above hinged-lid candle box, with fruitwood inlays and appliques, 103.5 (w) x 40 (d) x 123cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: patina and wear commensurate with age £400-600
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CHARLES II JOINED OAK FOOD CUPBOARD, late 17th Century, double plank top above panelled doors pierced with wheel motifs within run moulded rails, sides similarly pierced, 103.5 (w) x 40 (d) x 123cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: old restoration, later handles, old splits, wear commensurate with age £800-1,200
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WELSH SYCAMORE AND ASH CRICKET TABLE, 19th Century, circular top with top with natural insect damage adding inersting texture, raised on hand shaped splayed legs sicketed to an under block with presumed original claret red paint,
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: old damage to rim, top slightly worn £600-800
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WELSH ASH MILKING STOOL, 19th Century, probably Carmarthenshire, the thick chamfered seat with flat front, undercut and raised on three hand shaped splayed legs, 33 (w) x 23 (d) x 24cms (h)
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017)
Comments: old wear commensurate with age, seat has old gauge marks and broken nail ends £200-300
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‡ PAUL PETER PIECH two colour limited edition (1/25) lithograph - opening verse from Dafydd Iwan’s 1979 track ‘Bod yn Rhydd’ (to be free), above rampant Welsh dragon, signed by both artist and the musician, dated 1988, 63 x 44cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent
Comments: framed and glazed, ready to hang £400-800
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‡ ANN LEWIS b.1962 limited edition (5/15) linocut - entitled, ‘Big Cloud Over the Boathouse’ on Oriel Tegfryn Gallery label, signed, dated 2012 verso, 27 x 16cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £100-200
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‡ GWYN ROBERTS oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Cottage Below Tryfan, Snowdonia in Winter’ on Fosse Gallery label, signed with initials, 60 x 45cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £500-1,000
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Provenance: the Welsh art collection of awardwinning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £1,000-2,000
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‡ HYWEL HARRIES oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Salem Revisited’, signed and dated ‘73, 59 x 75cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £3,000-5,000
Auctioneer’s Note (Prof. Robert Meyrick):
Hywel Harries’ Salem Re-visited is an interpretation of Salem, a 1908 watercolour by Sydney Curnow Vosper. It is a reminder of the historic significance of chapel-going in Wales and the centrality of Nonconformist Christianity in Wales. An art teacher, painter and cartoonist, Harries understood the cultural reference in Vosper’s painting, which shows the interior of Capel Salem Cefncymerau near Harlech. Purchased by industrialist William Hesketh Lever, the image became familiar through mass-circulated reproductions advertising Sunlight Soap.
In October 2019, Rogers Jones successfully brokered the purchase by the National Library of Wales of Vosper’s second version of the painting. Vosper painted Salem in the wake the 1904-05 Welsh Revival, which saw a resurgence of religion. Once a national icon, emblematic of religious piety among the rural poor in Wales, Salem’s ubiquity depended on that context. In the intervening years it was distributed through Urdd Gobaith Cymru, reproduced as covers for Cymru Fydd calendars, and used by nationalists and Welsh language activists. As art historian Peter Lord points out, framed prints of Salem are nowadays consigned to ‘folk memory,’ a curious relic of times past. Carmarthenshire born, Harries trained at Llanelli School of Art until 1941, when his studies were interrupted by RAF service. After resuming his studies at Cardiff Technical College in 1947, he held teaching posts at Ealing and Machynlleth before his 1954 appointment as Head of Art at Ardwyn Grammar School (later Penglais Comprehensive School) at Aberystwyth, a position he held until his retirement in 1981.
Harries is best known for his paintings of Aberystwyth townscapes and the landscape of Ceredigion. He developed a distinctive handling of layered dry paint using a soft warm palette. His landscapes often explored spatial effects and the decorative flattening of interlocking planes of colour, pattern and form, while his townscapes deploy a narrower tonal range and muted colours. Harries’ Salem Re-visited paintings were a rare dalliance with abstraction. Fellow Welshman Ceri Richards had likewise sought contemporary responses to familiar subjects when he made paintings after Rubens’ The Rape of the Sabine Women in the National Gallery, London, in 1946. Harries would also have been
aware of Pablo Picasso’s abstracted translations of paintings by Cranach, Velázquez, and Ingres.
Salem portrays the 71-year-old widow Siân Owen T’n y Fawnog taking her pew before the start of a service. Even in 1908 the scene depicted by Vosper was something of an anachronism. Stovepipe hats were rarely worn then; in fact, only one such hat could be sourced for the women to model. In 1938, Vosper recalled the names of his sixpence-an-hour models; among them were a local carpenter, farmer, shopkeeper and a tailor’s dummy he named Leusa Jones. In Salem Re-visited, Harries has lettered their names on or alongside each character. The popular belief is that the devil lies in the detail of the folds of Siân Owen’s richly patterned paisley shawl, even though Vosper refuted that the likeness was intentional. There is no ambiguity in Harries’ flat monochrome rendering of the shawl as the profile of a demonic face in contrast to its colourful surroundings. Uncharacteristically for Harries, the act of painting appears on this occasion to be more important than representation or narrative. The illusion of pictorial space being abandoned, the relative position of the congregation becomes unclear. The jigsaw arrangement of overlapping shapes allude to the fragmentary nature of appearances in momentary glances. Peter Lord described this approach as a ‘Cubist-cum-patchwork quilt oil painting.’
For Harries, there was an additional resonance in Vosper’s Salem. He was himself a man of faith and a staunch chapel-goer. He was an elder at Capel Salem (later to become Capel Morfa) in Aberystwyth. Always smartly presented in jacket, collar and tie, there was nothing bohemian about him. Indeed, Harries looked every bit the chapel deacon. Founding Ceredigion Art Society in 1963, Harries placed his knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for art into the service of the community. He was Vice-President of the Royal Cambrian Academy and chaired the Art and Craft Committee of the Council of the National Eisteddfod. In retirement, he authored several books, among them Cymru’r Cynfas: Pymtheg Artist Cyfoes [Wales on Canvas: Fifteen Contemporary Artists] (1983).
Prof. Robert Meyrick, art historian, curator and educator, until recently Professor, Head of Aberystwyth University’s School of Art and Keeper of the School of Art Museum and Galleries
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‡ GWILYM PRICHARD oil on boardentitled verso, ‘Road to Rhos Cottage’, signed, 90 x 120cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £3,000-6,000
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‡ DAVID HUMPHREYS oil on panel - entitled verso, ‘Farm, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire’, signed, 75 x 120cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £1,000-1,500
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‡ JOHN PIPER lithograph - entitled verso, ‘Bethesda Baptist Chapel, Swansea’, dated verso 1966, 53 x 69cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £200-400
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‡ JOHN PIPER lithograph - entitled verso, ‘Swansea Chapel’, dated verso 1964
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £200-400
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‡ PAUL PETER PIECH three colour lithographquote from Welsh literary figure and politician Saunders Lewis (1893-1985) ‘There is no hope for Wales until the young generation study the past of Wales’, 60 x 44cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £200-400 81
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‡ OGWYN DAVIES limited edition (97/98) print - ‘Soar y Mynydd’, signed, 51 x 38cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent Auctioneer’s Notes: an image of one of the remotest chapels in Wales over typed with Welsh hymns and musical notes, by now an iconic print of 20th Century Welsh art £400-800
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‡ JOHN PETTS limited edition (artist’s proof) wood engraving - entitled, ‘The Boathouse, Laugharne’, signed and dated 1989, 12 x 9cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £300-500
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‡ CERI RICHARDS b.1903 facsimile print - from ‘Twelve Lithographs for Six Poems by Dylan Thomas’, including ‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower”, printed signatures, 25 x 38cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £200-400
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JOHN SPEED coloured 1610 copper engraved map - entitled in cartouche ‘Caermarden, Both Shyre and Town described’, with inset plan of Carmarthen town, scale of miles, compass and other illustrations, 39 x 52cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £300-500
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‡ JOHN KNAPP-FISHER oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Llanwnda with Moon’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated 2004, 53 x 70cms
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‡ JOHN ELWYN oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Welsh Landscape’, signed, 50 x 50cms
art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £6,000-12,000
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‡ JOHN UZZELL EDWARDS oil and mixed media on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Blaenau’, from the artist’s Welsh Quilt Series, signed and dated 2008 verso, 119 x 118cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £800-1,500
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JOSEF HERMAN oil on board - entitled verso, ‘The Mexican Girl’, signed and dated verso 1978, 88 x 73cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent, with Bonhams £3,000-7,000
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JOHN UZZELL EDWARDS oil and mixed media on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Carmarthen I’ from the artist’s Welsh Quilt Series, signed and dated verso 2008, 169 x 160cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £800-1,500
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‡ CEFYN BURGESS textile collage - isolated chapel and landscape, 28 x 29cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent
£300-600
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19TH CENTURY PRIMITIVE SCHOOL oil on canvas - farmer shearing sheep with female companion, 42.5 x 55cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of awardwinning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent
Comments: paint craquelure, framed £1,000-2,000
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‡ CERI RICHARDS portfolio of seven limited edition (90/100) colour lithographs - to illustrate the text by the artist’s associate Roberto Sanesi, entitled ‘Viaggio Verso Il Nord’, numbered (90/100), signed, 43 x 30cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent
Comments: shelf wear to the box and damaged sides £700-1,000
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EARLY 19TH CENTURY WELSH SCHOOL MANNER OF JOHN CAMBRIAN ROWLAND oil on canvas - inscribed verso, ‘Welsh Couple Going to Market’, 35.5 x 43cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent
Comments: craquelure and paint loss, framed £400-600
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Printiau Cymreig a Lluosog 99-135
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JOHN PIPER screenprint by Sanderson on Sanderlin cotton - entitled verso, ‘Chiesa Della Salute’, dated verso 1959, 47 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £200-300
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FRANK LLOYD-WRIGHT screenprint on cotton for F. Schumacher & Co - entitled verso, ‘Taliesin, Design 102’, dated verso 1950s, 68 x 99cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £300-500
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JOHN PIPER screenprint by Sanderson on Sanderlin cotton - entitled verso, ‘Stones of Bath’, dated verso 1962, 47 x 38cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £200-300
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JOHN PIPER screenprint by Sanderson on Sanderlin cotton - entitled ‘The Glyders’, dated verso 1960, 100 x 122cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire
Comments: unframed £200-300
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‡ JOHN ELWYN lithograph - entitled ‘Laugharne Estuary from Dylan Thomas’ Boathouse’, numbered 190/300, signed in pencil, from 1988, 35 x 52cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion Auctioneer’s Notes: following a visit to Thomas’s boat house at Laugharne, Elwyn made a series of watercolour paintings of the Taff estuary and the Gower beyond. This limited edition print was produced at the same time
Comments: unframed, excellent condition £200-300
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ARCHIBALD BERTRAM WEBB (English-Australian, 1887-1944) large lithograph posterWelsh landscape, entitled verso, ‘Castell Carreg Cennen, Carmarthenshire’, 83 x 118cms
Provenance: private collection Gloucestershire
Auctioneer’s Notes: image used for 1935 GWR advertising campaign poster for ‘Wales’, please see Science Museum Collection
Comments: trimmed and laid down
£200-400
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‡ KIM ATKINSON colour lithograph - titled ‘Siskins, Minsmere’, signed, dated 1987, 30 x 85cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands
£150-250
Provenance: private collection Powys £150-250
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‡ AUGUSTUS JOHN RA etchinghead portrait of a young woman, signed in pencil, 15 x 10cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £300-500
‡ JOHN PIPER limited edition (55/70) etching and aquatintentitled verso, ‘Old Church of Mynachlogddu’ on Goldmark Gallery label, signed fully in pencil, 40 x 53cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
£1,000-2,000
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‡ ISLWYN WATKINS limited edition (7/8) monochrome lithograph - abstract, signed and dated 1984, 38 x 55cms
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‡ CERI RICHARDS two colour limited edition (48/100) lithograph - ‘The Story Lost in the Snow’ 1971, from Journey Towards the North by Robert Sanesi, signed fully in pencil, printed by Stanley Jones at Curwen Studios, 43 x 32cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion £100-150
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‡ GEORGE CHAPMAN etching and aquatint in two colours - inscribed verso ‘Maerdie’ (sic) signed in pencil, dated verso 1980, 36 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion £200-300
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‡ PETER PRENDERGAST limited edition (12/35) etching - entitled, ‘September’ signed and dated 2000, 25 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £200-300
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‡ CHARLES BURTON limited edition (18/35) screenprint - entitled verso, ‘February’, signed and dated 2000, 27 x 34cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £150-250
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‡ JANE EVE DIXON colour photograph and accompanying giclee portfolio - ‘Spirit of Ynyslas IV, Lost Kingdom of Cantre’r Gwaelod’, signed and dated verso 2015, 29 x 37cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Auctioneer’s Notes: Cantre’r Gwaelod is Wales’s own version of the legend of Atlantis, located under the sea of Cardigan Bay, it was said to be once an ancient rich and fertile ‘lowland hundred’ and sixteen cities governed by Gwyddno Garanhir, whose palace, Caer Wyddno, was reputedly near Aberystwyth. The guardian of the sea defences was Seithennyn, a friend of the king charged with the allimportant role of shutting the sea gates every night. One night Seithennyn, who liked his drink, was at a feast in the king’s palace, and forgot to shut the sea gates. It was a stormy night and the high spring tides broke through, quickly flooding Cantre’r Gwaelod, and forcing its people to flee to the hills. Some say that the story of Cantre’r Gwaelod is actually a parable to warn people about the perils of over-indulging. However, there is physical evidence that inhabited land did disappear under the waves during the period that the tale is set. In all likelihood, this flooding was due to the rising sea levels at the end of the last glacial period. As well as the stumps of an ancient sunken forest that featuring in Jane Eve Dixon’s work and can be seen at very low tide at Ynyslas, archaeologists have also found a timber walkway, dated between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago, which was probably built so locals could continue to live in an increasingly waterlogged environment. Human and animal footprints have also been found preserved in the hardened top layer of peat, along with burnt stones that came from ancient hearths
Comments: with certificate of authenticity, framed, glazed, ready to hang, the individual portfolio giclee prints are unframed £200-400
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‡ EIRIAN LLWYD colograff/monoprint - a pair, woodland scene at sunset together with another at night, both signed and dated 2005, 30 x 41cms (2)
Provenance: private collection Powys
£150-250
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‡ VALERIE GANZ limited edition (56/200) printentitled ‘Night Shift Leaving’ on Fountain Fine Art Gallery label, signed, 40 x 58cms
Provenance: private collection Rhondda
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‡ NICK HOLLY limited edition (1/15) print - street with figure, possibly St Thomas, Swansea, signed, 25 x 39cms
Provenance: private collection Rhondda
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Comments: sl. blemishes, framed and glazed
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Provenance: private collection overseas-based vendor, vendor met Piech during the 1980s through Tony Evora (creator of the iconic Che Guevara posters) and when studying at Oxford Polytechnic. In 1987, the vendor and the artist organised an exhibition to raise awareness for Survival International with a focus on Aboriginal land rights, held successfully at the Old Fire Station, Oxford. This was followed by an exhibition at Oxford Polytechnic focusing on Piech’s work for Amnesty International
Comments: unframed, the old fire station print with water stain, sl. creasing to both £100-200
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Provenance: private collection overseas-based vendor, vendor met Piech during the 1980s through Tony Evora (creator of the iconic Che Guevara posters) and when studying at Oxford Polytechnic. In 1987, the vendor and the artist organised an exhibition to raise awareness for Survival International with a focus on Aboriginal land rights, held successfully at the Old Fire Station, Oxford. This was followed by an exhibition at Oxford Polytechnic focusing on Piech’s work for Amnesty International
Comments: unframed, sl. creasing to both £100-200
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‡ ANEURIN JONES monochrome print - farmers in flat caps, mount signed in pencil, 19 x 26cms
Provenance: private collection Derbyshire £300-400
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‡ HARVEY THOMAS two limited edition prints - entitled (1) ‘Towy Coraclemen, Carmarthen’ (45/200), signed and dated ‘78, 37 x 52cms, (2) entitled ‘Ffairfach, Llandeilo’ with printed signature, 33 x 47cms
Provenance: private collection Derbyshire £100-200
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‡ ELERI MILLS limited edition (9/10) hand coloured lithograph - entitled verso, ‘Sycharth’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, 27 x 34cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £200-300
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‡ JOHN PIPER numbered artist’s proof lithograph - entitled verso, ‘Foliate Head’, signed, dated verso 1976, 44 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Bridgend £150-250
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‡ KING CHARLES III limited edition (16/100) lithograph - entitled, ‘Cwm Berwyn’, signed and dated 2008, 26 x 38.5cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: with COA and carry case, framed, ready to hang £200-300
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‡ PAUL PETER PIECH four colour lithograph - poster for a production of Dylan Thomas’s ‘Under Milk Wood’ at the Bridgend College Hall, signed and dated 1991, 64 x 95cms
Provenance: private collection Oxfordshire
Comments: unframed £150-250
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‡ PAUL PETER PIECH limited edition (25/25) three colour lithograph - verse from American poet Walt Whitman, ‘Not Until the Sun Excludes You, Will I Exclude You’, signed and dated 1991, 64 x 45cms
Provenance: private collection Oxfordshire
Comments: unframed £100-150
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‡ CERI RICHARDS limited edition (30/30) colour lithograph - ‘Elegiac Sonnet I’, signed and dated ‘70, 50 x 36cms
Provenance: private collection
Neath-Port Talbot £400-600
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‡ CERI RICHARDS limited edition (30/30) colour lithograph - ‘Elegiac Sonnet II’, signed and dated ‘70, 50 x 36cms
Provenance: private collection
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‡ PAUL PETER PIECH limited edition (8/20) five colour lithograph - Aneurin Bevan with the accompanying Welsh language slogan, ‘Tad y Cynllun’ (The Father of the Plan), signed and dated 1990, 64 x 45cms
Provenance: private collection Oxfordshire
Comments: unframed £150-250
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Comments: unframed £100-150
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Provenance: private collection Oxfordshire
Comments: unframed £150-250
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‡ GEORGE CHAPMAN artist’s proof etchingstreet with figures at bus stop and sheep in the road, signed in pencil, 68 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £200-300
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‡ TERENCE CUNEO poster - railway advertising for ‘Dolgoch Station on the Tal-yLlyn Railway, Towyn, Merioneth, Wales’, printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd, London, circa 1960, 100 x 62cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: fold lines, framed and glazed £250-350
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‡ PAUL PETER PIECH two colour lithographpoem by William Blake entitled ‘Tyger, Tyger’, signed and dated 1991, 64 x 45cms
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‡ JOHN PIPER limited edition (20/70) lithograph - Malmesbury Abbey, signed and numbered in pencil, 61 x 52cms
Provenance: Goldmark Gallery, Rutland; private collection Cardiff
Comments: minor creases
£200-300
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EDGAR HOLLOWAY (1914-2008) etching - self-portrait, No.10 ‘The Grey Topper, 1937’, signed, 19 x 16cms
Provenance: artist’s estate, consigned via our Mid-Wales office
£150-180
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EDGAR HOLLOWAY (1914-2008) limited edition (21/50) engraving from 1978 - entitled verso, ‘Self Portrait No.17, The Artist as a Young Man’, signed, 27 x 18cms
Provenance: artist’s estate, consigned via our Mid-Wales office
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Gweithiau
Cymreig ar Bapur
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £2,000-2,500
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £1,000-1,500
Provenance: private collection Cheshire Auctioneer’s Notes: the painting is from the artist’s Pit Tragedy Series, it is concerned with miners returning home heavily after an explosion at a mine. The artist worked from sketchbook drawings he had produced of the mining communities near Pont-Rhyd-y-Fen, where he had lived during the Second World War. During war-time, Elwyn was living in the Afan Valley area while he conducted forestry work once Conscientious Objector status had been granted to him £1,000-1,500
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‡ ROGER CECIL mixed media - barren landscape with single tree, signed and dated 1971, 31 x 89cms
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‡ JOHN ELWYN oil on paper - figures in a dark landscape, signed with initials, dated 1949, 28 x 45cms
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‡ GORDON STUART oil on paperPenclawdd beach with cockle cart, signed, 48 x 66cms
Provenance: private collection
Swansea £300-500
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‡ GORDON STUART oil on paper - view of Swansea Bay from the late artist’s home, signed, 54 x 73cms
Provenance: private collection
Swansea £400-600
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‡ DEWI TUDUR mixed mediaentitled verso, ‘Ger Y Copa’ / ‘Near the Summit’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated 2001, 14 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection
Cardiff £300-400
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‡ DEWI TUDUR mixed mediaentitled verso, ‘Mae’n Cychwyn Bwrw Eira’ / It’s Starting to Snow’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 1998, 29 x 41cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £350-450
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SIR ERNEST ALBERT WATERLOW RA watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Ogmore Castle, South Wales’, signed, 25.5 x 46cms
Provenance: private collection Birmingham £300-400
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Provenance: private collection Newport £200-300
Provenance: private collection Caernarfonshire £700-1,000
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‡ GARETH THOMAS watercolourentitled verso, ‘Early Evening Near Valreas’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 53 x 74cms
Provenance: private collection
Pembrokeshire
£300-500
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‡ WILLIAM SELWYN mixed mediaentitled verso, ‘The Launch’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 43 x 54cms
Provenance: private collection
Pembrokeshire
£500-700
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‡ WILLIAM SELWYN mixed mediaentitled verso ‘Fishermen Launching’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 48 x 68cms
Provenance: private collection Pembrokeshire
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‡ VALERIE GANZ red chalk on paperentitled verso ‘Standing Figure’, signed, 48 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection Pembrokeshire £200-300
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‡ GARETH THOMAS watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Winter Sun, Three Cliffs Bay’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 26 x 75cms
Provenance: private collection Pembrokeshire £300-400
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‡ GLORIA (GLO) WILLIAMS charcoal on papertwo girls on swings, signed, 85 x 75cms
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private collection Monmouthshire, purchased at Roger Cecil exhibition, Brecon, 2021 £1,500-2,000
‡ MIKE JONES mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Ystalyfera’, on Albany Gallery label, signed, 47 x 53cms
£400-600
‡ VALERIE GANZ watercolour - group of miners, signed, 20 x 31cms
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‡ CERI RICHARDS pen, ink and wash - entitled verso, ‘Nude’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label’, signed and dated ‘47, 18 x 24cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £750-850
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‡ HELEN STEINTHAL pencil and watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Bird Worshippers’, signed with initials, 40 x 58cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £200-300
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‡ MILDRED ELSI ELDRIDGE watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Orange Tip Butterflies on Horse Grass’ signed and dated 1962, 47 x 36cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £700-1,000
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‡ HELEN STEINTHAL watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Derelict Quarry’, signed with initials, 36 x 48cms
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‡ NINA HAMNETT pencil - entitled verso, ‘Life Class’, signed with initials, dated verso c.1920, 44 x 28cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands Auctioneer’s Notes: born Tenby, studied at the Pelham Art School and the London School of Art between 1906 and 1910. Then launched herself into the London art world on the strength of a fifty pound advance on an inheritance from her uncle and a stipend of two shillings and sixpence a week from her aunts. She socialised with the likes of Augustus John, Walter Sickert, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. She became very popular as a result of her high spirits, her devil-may-care attitude, and her sexual promiscuity. Like other women at the time revelling in a newfound independence, she had her hair cut short in a ‘crophead’ style (what we would now call a basin cut) and she wore eccentric clothing: It was said that at this phase in her life Nina Hamnett had the knack of being in the right place at the right time. In 1914 she went to live in Montparnasse, Paris, immediately meeting on her first night there the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani. He introduced her to Picasso, Serge Dighilev, and Jean Cocteau, and she went to live at the famous artist’s residence of La Ruche which housed many other Bohemian artists and modernist writers. It was there that she met the Norwegian artist Roald Kristian, who became her first husband. Rapidly she established herself as a flamboyant and unconventional figure - bisexual, drank heavily, and had liaisons with many other artists in Bohemian society, often modelling for them as a way of earning a (precarious) living. She established her reputation as ‘The Queen of Bohemia’ by such antics as dancing nude on a cafe table amongst her drinking friends. Her reputation as a Bohemian and an artist eventually filtered back to London, where she returned to join Roger Fry and his circle working on the application of modernist design principles to fabrics, furniture, clothes, and household objects as part of the Omega Workshops. She acted as a model for the clothes along with Mary Hutchinson, Clive Bell‘s mistress, and she mingled with other members of the Bloomsbury Group, such as Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Salon d’Automne in Paris. She also taught at the Westminster Technical Institute in London. Around this time she divorced her first husband and lived with the composer and fellow alcoholic E.J. Moeran. During the 1920s (and for the rest of her life) she made the area in central London known as Fitzrovia her home and stomping ground. This new locale for arty-Bohemia was centred on the Fitzroy Tavern in Charlotte Street which she frequented along with fellow Welsh artists Augustus John and Dylan Thomas, making occasional excursions across Oxford Street to the Gargoyle Club in Soho.
After the glamorous world of modernism and the artistic avant-garde, there was a no less spectacular descent into poverty, squalor, and alcoholism, living in a bed-sit in Howland Street, infested with lice and littered with rodent droppings. It was said that the flat was furnished only with a broken-down chair, a piece of string for a clothes line, and newspapers instead of proper bedding. In 1932 she published a volume of memoirs entitled ‘Laughing Torso’, which was a best-seller in both the UK and the USA. Following its publication she was sued by Aleister Crowley, whom she had accused of practising black magic. The ensuing trial caused a sensation which helped sales of the book, and Crowley lost his case.
Her success in this instance only fuelled her downward spiral, and she spent the last three decades of her life propping up the bar of the Fitzroy trading anecdotes of her glory years for free drinks. She took little interest in personal hygiene, was incontinent in public, and vomited into her handbag. Her ending was as spectacular as had been her previous life. Drunk one night she either fell or jumped from the window of her flat and was impaled on the railing spikes below. She lingered miserably in hospital for three more days, where her last words were “Why don’t they let me die?”
£400-600
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‡ HELEN STEINTHAL watercolour and pencil - flock of birds above landscape with sun and distant mountains, 35 x 52cms (verso a watercolour female figure asleep under a tree), 30 x 42cms
Provenance: private collection
West Midlands
Comments: both paintings framed and glazed recto and verso
£200-300
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‡ CERI RICHARDS mixed media - figure at piano, signed and dated 1947, 36 x 54cms Provenance: private collection Cardiff £2,500-3,500
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‡ HELEN STEINTHAL portfolio of approximately thirty unframed works on paper - early drawings of landscapes, fine quality life-drawings and various, some titled, various sizes, the largest, 38 x 47cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands Auctioneer’s Notes: Steinthal studied at Salford Polytechnic from 1928 to 1929, Grosvenor School of Art, 1930 to 1932 under Ian McNab and at the Slade School of Fine Art, where she studied stage design and decorative painting under Vladimir Polunin, 1933-38. She worked as a scene painter at the Old Vic and Sadlers Wells, before returning to Manchester at the outbreak of World War II. She exhibited at Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Leeds City Art Gallery, Manchester Society of Modern Painters and relocated to Wales after the Second World War. While in Wales she exhibited National Eisteddfod and was included in Welsh Arts Council exhibitions of Contemporary Welsh painting at the Royal Academy, Royal Cambrian Academy, Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, and Ceri Richards Gallery at Swansea University. Bangor University holds examples of her work
Comments: all unframed, most are mounted and in cellophane covers
£400-600
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‡ DAVID GROSVENOR mixed media - landscape with dark skies with reflection, signed, 36 x 54cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £200-300
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‡ JOHN ELWYN gouache on paper - entitled verso, ‘Approaching Rain’, signed, circa mid-1980s, 25 x 35cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion £500-700
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‡ JOHN ELWYN watercolour - inscribed verso, ‘Road to Swansea from Pontrhydyfen where John Elwyn worked on the land during the war’, with John Elwyn Studio stamp verso, signed with initials, circa 1952, 24 x 36cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion £400-600
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‡ JOHN ELWYN gouache on paper - entitled verso, ‘Hill Farm, Dyfed’, with John Elwyn Studio stamp verso, circa 1980, 22 x 17cms
Provenance: private collection
Ceredigion £250-350
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‡ JOHN ELWYN acrylic on paper - entitled verso, ‘Shaded Barns’, with John Elwyn Studio stamp verso, circa 1990, signed, 34 x 50cms
Provenance: private collection
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‡ JOHN ELWYN acrylic on paper - entitled verso, ‘September Afternoon’, circa 1985, signed, 36 x 52cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion £700-1,000
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‡ JOHN ELWYN mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Pheasants in Hiding’, John Elwyn Studio stamp verso, circa 1957, 35 x 37cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion £300-500
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‡ JOHN MACFARLANE mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Clock’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated 2009, 34 x 55cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £400-600
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‡ VIVIENNE WILLIAMS mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Green Bowl with Eggs’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso 2013, 30 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £200-300
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‡ VIVIENNE WILLIAMS mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Still Life with Lemons and Raspberries’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso 2003, 45 x 61cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £400-700
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‡ DEWI TUDUR mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Awyr Stormus/Stormy Sky’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated 2004, 15 x 50cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £200-300
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‡ OLIVER GAIGER acrylic on paper - entitled verso, ‘Passes By’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso 2012, 61 x 85cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff, together with Oliver Gaiger solo exhibition card from the Martin Tinney Gallery February 2016 £500-700
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‡ IWAN GWYN PARRY watercolour on paper - entitled verso, ‘Distant Blue Peninsula with Estuary River II’ on Martin Tinney gallery label, signed and dated verso 2008, 67 x 100cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £400-600
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‡ NEIL CANNING mixed mediaentitled verso, ‘High Plateau’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2003, 23 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection
Cardiff £300-400
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‡ NEIL CANNING mixed mediaentitled verso, ‘Tango’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2003, 23 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection
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‡ GLYN BAINES mixed mediacollage on board, untitled, Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso 2016, 30 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
£300-500
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‡ ROSEMARY BURTON collageentitled verso ‘Flowers on a Table’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2011, 23 x 23cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
£200-400
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‡ ELFYN LEWIS acrylic on paperentitled verso, ‘Dadmer’ on Gallery Ten label, signed and dated verso 2014, 21 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff, with solo exhibition card entitled ‘Beautiful Mistake’ July 2014
£200-300
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‡ ROGER CECIL watercolourlandscape with grasses, signed and dated ‘68, 30 x 50cms
Provenance: private collection Oxfordshire
£250-350
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DAVID TRESS watercolour - flowering gorse bush, signed and dated ‘87, 31 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection Oxfordshire
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‡ MIKE JONES crayon and wash - entitled verso, ‘Farmers’, signed, 20 x 26cms
Provenance: private collection
Cardiff £300-500
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‡ MIKE JONES inkwash on paperentitled verso, ‘Tyle Mount’, signed, 21 x 26cms
Provenance: private collection
Denbighshire
£300-500
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‡ MIKE JONES inkwash on paper - entitled verso, ‘Farmers on a Rail’, signed, 23 x 27cms
Provenance: private collection
Denbighshire
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‡ MIKE JONES inkwash on paper - entitled verso, ‘Monday’, signed, 20 x 13cms
Provenance: private collection
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‡ WILLIAM SELWYN mixed media on paper - blacksmith in his workshop with burning furnace, Oriel Tegfryn Gallery label, signed, 34 x 27cms
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‡ WILLIAM SELWYN mixed mediaentitled verso, ‘The Young Shrimper’, signed, 26 x 36cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £300-500
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‡ DAVID GROSVENOR watercolourentitled verso, ‘Tryfan II’ on Oriel Tegfryn Gallery label, signed, 37 x 55cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £250-350
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‡ MALCOLM EDWARDS watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Shepherd, Llanberis’, signed, 40 x 33cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £500-700
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‡ ALED PRICHARDJONES pastel on paper - entitled verso, ‘Crib y Ddysgl’ on Oriel Tegfryn Gallery label, signed with initials, 52 x 72cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £300-400
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‡ MIKE JONES oil on card - entitled verso, ‘Two Farmers’, signed, 25 x 30cms
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‡ WILL ROWLANDS watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Penrhyn’, signed and dated ‘02, 50 x 72cms
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‡ MURIEL DELAHAYE charcoal and pastel - entitled verso, ‘The Bag Lady’, signed, 84 x 59cms
Provenance: private collection Cumbria £400-600
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‡ MURIEL DELAHAYE large pastel on paper - scene from ‘The Tempest’ with nymphs underwater, entitled verso, ‘Hourly Ring His Knell’, signed, 103 x 83cms
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‡ JOSEF HERMAN mixed media - vase of flowers, 46 x 60cms
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‡ ROGER CECIL mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Untitled 0367’ on Kooywood Gallery label, 19 x 14cms
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‡ WILLIAM SELWYN mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Llanberis Pass’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 20 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £300-500
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‡ LESLIE MOORE mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Walton on Thames’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated ‘57, 50 x 70cms
Provenance: private collection Bridgend £500-800
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‡ WILL ROBERTS charcoal - entitled verso, ‘Study of a Pensive Female’ on Attic Gallery label, signed and dated 1950, 75 x 50cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £300-400
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‡ BERT ISAAC acrylic - entitled verso, ‘Vortex’, signed and dated ‘02, 17 x 17cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £150-250
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‡ MEGAN JONES conté and wash - entitled verso, ‘Hawthorn, Garn Goch’, signed, 40 x 51cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £200-300
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‡ ARTHUR GIARDELLI watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Amroth Bay’, signed with monogram, signed and dated 1956 verso, 38 x 57cms
Provenance: private collection Powys
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‡ RAY HOWARD JONES gouache on paper - entitled verso, ‘Marloes Coast, Pembrokeshire’, signed and dated ‘93, 37 x 54.5cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £500-700
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‡ VIVIENNE WILLIAMS mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Jug with Plate of Beans’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso 2010, 40 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £300-400
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‡ SIGRID MULLER mixed mediaentitled verso, ‘White Poppies’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso 1998, 25 x 45cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan
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‡ SIGRID MULLER mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Raspberries and Plum’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso 2003, 21 x 19cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £300-400
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‡ RAY HOWARD JONES gouache on paper - winter sunset over a headland with tree, 20 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £300-500
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‡ LESLIE MOORE mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Romilly Park’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated ‘71, 55 x 76cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £300-400
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‡ ERIC MALTHOUSE pen and watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Sorting Fish, St Ives III’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso c.1952, 22 x 27cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £300-400
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‡ ERIC MALTHOUSE mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Pithead’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, 28 x 37cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £300-400
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‡ ROSEMARY BURTON collage - entitled verso, ‘Flowers on a Windowsill’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated 2011 verso, 30 x 22cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £250-350
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‡ DARREN HUGHES mixed media on paper - entitled verso, ‘Early Morning, Waunfawr’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2007, 19 x 49.5cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £200-300
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‡ SARAH THWAITES mixed media on paper - entitled verso, ‘Study for Looking Across Llyn Celyn’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed with initials, dated verso 2014, 8 x 34cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £150-250
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‡ FELICITY CHARLTON pencilentitled verso, ‘Portrait of Evan Charlton’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, 33 x 23cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £100-150
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‡ LESLIE MOORE mixed media - still life of flowers, entitled, ‘Evening - The Studio’, signed and dated ‘75, 75 x 55cms
Provenance: deceased estate
Vale of Glamorgan £200-300
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‡ LESLIE MOORE mixed media - park with gnarled tree and figures, 47 x 65cms
Provenance: deceased estate
Vale of Glamorgan
Comments: mount believed to be obscuring signature, framed and glazed £200-300
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‡ LESLIE MOORE mixed media - semiabstract landscape with red flowers, signed and dated ‘70, 53 x 36cms
Provenance: deceased estate
Vale of Glamorgan £250-350
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‡ LESLIE MOORE mixed media - abstract, signed and dated ‘64/65, 40 x 50cms
Provenance: deceased estate
Vale of Glamorgan £300-400
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‡ LESLIE MOORE mixed media - abstract, 60 x 45cms
Provenance: deceased estate
Vale of Glamorgan £250-350
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‡ LESLIE MOORE ink and washPorthkerry Viaduct, Barry, signed and dated 1975/6, 55 x 74cms
Provenance: deceased estate
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ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS BAXTER pen and ink on paper - entitled, ‘St John’s Church, Swansea’, 15 x 19cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £150-250
WILLIAM WESTON YOUNG watercolour - entitled, ‘Swansea Castle’, 33 x 46cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff, as per attached sheet, ‘this picture was found amongst a large cache of drawings, letters, documents of his life starting when he was at school in Gilderson, Yorkshire, a range of personal topics together with a written record of his capture by a French warship off the coast of Ireland when he was attempting to emigrate to America. This included details of his attempt to escape from the French warship when it was moored off Brest. William Weston Young was joined by an English naval officer attempting to swim from the prison ship to a nearby vessel. This venture failed as the naval officer drowned, and William Weston Young on reaching the nearby ship climbed aboard and was horrified to discover the vessel was a French ship, not a neutral as he had hoped. All these documents and drawings are strong evidence that this drawing is by William Weston Young’
Comments: faded with age £500-600
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‡ WILL ROBERTS ink and pastel on paper - entitled verso, ‘Phyllis Reading in the Garden’, signed and dated 1998, 40 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £150-250
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‡ VALERIE GANZ watercolour - Mumbles Pier, Swansea with moored boats at sunset, signed at dated ‘76, 35 x 48cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea £300-400
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‡ KIM ATKINSON mixed media - entitled, ‘Razorbill with Sand Eels’, signed and dated 1988, 42 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £150-250
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‡ GWILYM PRICHARD pastel - entitled verso, ‘Two Seagulls’, signed, 15 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £200-300
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‡ ROGER CECIL mixed media - barren landscape with colliery and figure, 28 x 90cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £800-1,400
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‡ WILLIAM SELWYN mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Lon i’r Chwarel’ (Road to the Quarry), signed, 25 x 27cms
Provenance: private collection Caernarfonshire £300-400
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‡ VALERIE GANZ mixed media - portrait of a seated ballerina, signed, 38 x 27cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £300-400
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‡ VALERIE GANZ mixed media - standing portrait, entitled verso, ‘Luke of the Moscow State Circus’ on Attic Gallery label, signed, 29 x 35cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £200-300
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‡ GEORGE LITTLE mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Drawing 3’ on Attic Gallery label, signed, 25 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £150-250
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‡ MARY LLOYD JONES watercolour - entitled verso, ‘The Burren’, signed and dated ‘88, 20 x 26cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £200-300
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‡ SEREN BELL ink on paper - entitled verso, ‘Spot with Piglets’, 38 x 50cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £200-300
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‡ KEITH BOWEN pastel on paper - child and white horse, 70 x 50cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £300-400
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‡ SEREN BELL pen and ink - two Rhode Island cockerels, signed, 44 x 38cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion £400-600
monogram, dated ‘92, 56 x 37cms
Provenance: artist’s estate £150-250
Provenance: artist’s estate £150-250
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TOM JONES mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Criccieth Castle’, signed with
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TOM JONES watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Rhuddlan Castle’, signed with monogram, 51 x 31cms
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TOM JONES mixed media - entitled verso, ‘Beaumaris Castle, North Gatehouse’, signed with monogram, 53 x 58cms
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‡ WILLIAM SELWYN conté and wash - harbour view with yachts, signed in full, 30 x 39cms
Provenance: private collection Conwy £300-500
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‡ GWILYM PRICHARD mixed media - entitled verso ‘Y Garn’, signed, 53 x 36cms
Provenance: deceased estate Ynys Mon, by descent £500-800
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‡ WIL ROWLANDS mixed media - entitled verso ‘Dwy Am Lwc (Two For Joy)’, signed with initials, 35 x 35cms
Provenance: deceased estate Ynys Mon, by descent £300-500
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‡ WILL EVANS watercolour - Gower landscape, believed Arthur’s Stone and Reynoldston, 37 x 46cms
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire, previously with Peter Francis Auctioneers where provenance stated as ‘consigned from a member of the artist’s family’
Comments: recently framed and glazed £300-400
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EDGAR HOLLOWAY watercolour and pencil - entitled ‘Snowdon’, signed and dated ‘98, 28 x 38cms
Provenance: artist’s estate, consigned via our Mid-Wales office £180-200
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Sir Kyffin Wiliams: Art & Letters
Syr Kyffin Williams: Celf & Llythyron
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS & SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA extra-special and rare 2002 limited edition (4/20) volume of ‘Cutting Images’, specially bound and signed by Alan Wood, black Morocco with pictorial inlay, grey suede pastedowns, pencil signed preface by Kyffin Williams, with an additional nine linocuts retained in original sleeve and each numbered and initialled, presented in a fine quality drop-back box
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: fine condition, sl. surface marks as expected, a high quality and rare presentation
£1,000-2,000
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS & SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (24/350) ‘Pryderi’ by Llewelyn Wyn Griffith (1890-1977), illustrated and designed by Sir Kyffin Williams RA with eight linocut prints, on Velin Arches pure cotton mouldmade paper bound at Gregynog Press 1998, bound by Alan Wood and John Sewell, signed by the artist in pencil
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: in good condition £150-250
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS & SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (52/275) ‘Cutting Images - A Selection of Linocuts by Kyffin Williams’, dated 2002, signed by the artist in pencil, designed by Sir Kyffin and David Vickers, bound by John Sewell, with slip-case, now out of print
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: very good condition overall, usual scuffs and surface marks to binding and case £400-600
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GWASG GREGYNOG PRESS & SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (7/250) ‘Two Old Men and Other Stories’ by Kate Roberts (1891-1985), illustrated by Sir Kyffin Williams RA, printed by Gwasg Gregynog, 1981, designed and printed by Eric Gee, Zerkall mould-made paper, outer box
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: sl. fading to spine, fading to outer box, yellowing of initial pages £200-300
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (6/100) linocuts - Gwasg Gregynog Kyffin Portfolio comprising six prints from original linocuts printed by hand on Gregynog watermarked hand-made paper and presented in a hand-made quartercloth portfolio
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: all prints unframed as issued, light shelf wear to the portfolio cover, front of cover with marks £800-1,400
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Comments: unframed, in cellophane sleeve £250-350
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (artist’s proof) lithographcottages and chapel at Aberffraw, signed with initials, 40 x 50cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £300-500
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (65/75) printstanding Welsh Black bull, fully signed in pencil, 41 x 61cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent £1,000-2,000
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Provenance: private collection Ynys Mon (Anglesey) £300-500
‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (432/500) printConwy castle, signed fully in pencil, 49 x 66cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire
Comments: unframed, in cellophane sleeve £150-250
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (64/250) lithograph‘Farmer Below Snowdon’, signed fully in pencil, 56 x 56cms
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (162/750) print -’Farmer at Funeral’, fully signed, 59 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £300-400
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA artist’s proof print - standing farmer, fully signed, 54 x 31cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £250-350
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA artist’s proof print - shepherd on mountainside with two sheepdogs, fully signed, 51 x 36cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £300-500
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA numbered artist’s proof print - winter scene with cottage and figure, signed with initials, 45 x 55cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £400-600
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (249/500) printPatagonian horse and rider, fully signed in pencil, 33 x 43cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £200-300
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA artist’s proof print - study of a pausing sheepdog, fully signed, 51 x 36cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire
£300-500
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA signed colour print - coastal sunset, fully signed in pencil, 36 x 54cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire
£300-400
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (206/350) lithograph‘Sea at Trearddur’, signed with initials, 28 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea
£300-400
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (artist proof) linocutGwastadnant, fully signed in pencil, 43 x 43cms
Provenance: private collection Caernarfonshire
Comments: foxing to upper margin
£500-1,000
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (128/250) print‘Farmer Below Snowdon’, fully signed in pencil, 60 x 57cms
Provenance: private collection Caernarfonshire £300-500
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA artist’s proof lithograph - Penrhyn Du Farm, Ynys Mon (Anglesey) with Welsh Black cattle, fully signed in pencil, 59 x 74cms
Provenance: private collection Caernarfonshire
Comments: sl foxing to margin, mount dirty £1,000-1,500
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‡ KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA artist’s proof lithograph - Mott the sheepdog, signed in pencil, 30 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £300-500
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (95/150) linocutWelsh Black Cattle, signed and number in pencil, titled verso on Attic Gallery label, 24.5 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £300-500
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA important archive of letters - being mainly correspondences between the artist and his dear friends Anwen Carey Evans and husband David Lloyd ‘Bengy’ Carey-Evans, includes over 30 x letters on Sir Kyffin’s headed paper from his Llanfairpwll home, together with many doodles, additional postcards, additional greeting cards and other related ephemera. The correspondences span twentyyears from 1984 and show a close relationship between the Carey-Evans family and the epileptic batchelor Sir Kyffin. In the letters Kyffin often confided in the couple about his health, depression, incidences at home, state of mind, artistic woes, the art world and his grievances. He also writes of his pending Knighthood which he describes as his ‘gonging’. With regards to depression and ill-health, Sir Kyffin writes candidly of his feelings on several occasions, notably ‘…I have been ill ever since you went away. Down in Cardiganshire I couldn’t speak, eat or sleep as a huge depression came on me’. Returned to doctor visits and concerns from neighbours, ‘…weak as a kitten, haven’t painted for over 3 months…’ Many of the letters thank the couple for their caring hospitality and their ‘…soothing effect…’ and good food on occasions when he had visited. Within several of the letters Sir Kyffin is scathing of the governing of Welsh public art particularly at the National Museum of Wales, and he berates the lack of a Welsh National Gallery. In a letter dated 27th October 1999, ‘…things were rather ruined today when I got the information from the Museum saying that Dafydd Lewis is not only chairman of the Arts Committee, for which he is in no way qualified, but he is in charge of education as well. How can art possibly flourish in Wales if people qualify on the golf course? As a fully qualified artist it makes me sick….’ Sir Kyffin was famously concerned for the direction of the modern art world, within these letters he references controversial exhibitions by Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Mark Riley and in particular a British Art Show exhibition that travelled to Cardiff in 1996 (within a copy of a letter to the then Director of the National Museum of Wales), he writes ‘…alarmed of the reports of the current exhibition in the museum…art lovers have been deeply shocked by what is on show….police have been called in’ and regarding the keeper of art’s decision to have such an exhibition ‘…lack of responsibility and judgement together with an insensitivity that is disturbing, especially as we have been trying to bring more people to the galleries. Can you assure me that no similar exhibitions are shown in the Museum? If I do not have such an assurance, I cannot see that I am able to continue as a member of the Committee. I must now insist that my two Welsh landscapes that hang in the Galleries be taken off the walls immediately’. To ensure that the archive retains an element of exclusivity to the purchaser, we will not be sending images of all the letters by email or posting more than a small sample to our website. There is a brief summary of correspondences available by email. Interested parties are able to view the entire archive in person at our Cardiff offices by prearranged appointment on a day prior to the auction. The overall condition of the letters is excellent, no detailed condition report available
Provenance: directly from the Carey-Evans family, Sir Kyffin’s friendship with the Carey-Evans family began in the 1950s when Anwen was living in London with three girlfriends, at the same time Sir Kyffin was teaching at Highgate School. Through Anwen, Sir Kyffin met Bengy and all remained friends until Sir Kyffin’s death in 2006
£5,000-7,000
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA ink on paper - cartoon of the artist and another figure, inscribed, ‘Kyffin Just Wants to Say Very Many Thanks’, dated ‘02, 27 x 20cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion, formerly in the ownership of Molly Tomlinson who was gifted the sketch by the artist for her 80th birthday. Molly was of the Old Cutter Inn, Moel-y-Don near the Menai Straits, and Kyffin was a regular customer
£250-350
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA watercolour on paper - entitled verso, ‘Rocks, Fedw Fawr’, dated verso 1991, 38 x 56cms
Provenance: the Welsh art collection of award-winning television producer, the late Pat Llewellyn (1962-2017), by descent
£4,000-7,000
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA watercolourentitled verso, ‘Evening Storm’, signed with initials, 39 x 48cms
Provenance: private collection
£3,000-4,000
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA inkwash on paperentitled verso, ‘Houses Near Halifax’, signed with initials, 30 x 24cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: localised foxing
£2,000-3,000
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA pencil and watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Ponies in Anglesey’, signed with initials, 23 x 30cms
Provenance: the Estate of the late Major General and Mrs C N Last, original Gorstella Gallery receipt and two Thackery Gallery exhibition catalogues £5,000-7,000
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA mixed media - landscape with upland dwelling and drystone walls, signed with initials, 29 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Flintshire £3,000-5,000
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Talysarn Village, Caernarfon in the Nantlle Valley with Nantlle Ridge in the background, signed with initials, 50 x 72cms
Provenance: private collection Flintshire £10,000-15,000
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA ink and wash sketch - Eryri with possibly Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), signed with initials and signed fully verso, 12 x 17cms
Provenance: private collection Flintshire £1,500-2,500
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA pencil and watercolour - entitled verso, ‘Welsh Black Bull’ on Thackeray Gallery, signed with initials, 32 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire
Auctioneer’s Notes: rare opportunity to acquire an original work of a Welsh Black bull by Sir Kyffin Williams, the artist’s limited edition print of a similar bull is well-known and highly sought £5,000-10,000
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA ink and wash - entitled verso, ‘Hill Farmer No.2’ on Thackeray Gallery label, signed with initials, 53 x 35cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £5,000-8,000
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Provenance: private collection Conwy £3,500-4,500
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‡ SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA oil on canvasYnys Mon (Anglesey) whitewashed cottage and farm, entitled verso, ‘Rhyd Syr Williams’, signed with initials and accompanied with a personal hand written letter from Sir Kyffin explaining how much he liked the painting, dated 1991, signed with initials, 59 x 90cms
Provenance: the Estate of the late Major General and Mrs C N Last, the location of the farm is at the village of Llanfair-yn-Neubwll near to Sir Kyffin’s childhood home, with original sales receipt and auction catalogue from ‘Morgan Evans & Co, Anglesey’ 1991 (so likely to have been sold by the late David Rogers Jones at the end of his tenure at the company), two Albany Gallery exhibition catalogue £15,000-25,000
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£15,000-20,000
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Provenance: bought by current vendor’s mother (named on Thackeray label), same family ownership since, deceased estate Pembrokeshire
Comments: very good overall, viewing highly recommended £18,000-25,000
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Provenance: private collection Monmouthshire £250-350
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on boardYr Wyddfa (Snowdon) from Llyn Y Gader, signed, 24 x 54cms
Provenance: private collection Yorkshire £250-400
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on boardthe peak of Tryfan with stream and trees, signed, 24 x 54cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £300-500
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on board - entitled verso, ‘South East from Llyn Peris, Through the Llanberis Pass’, signed, 29 x 65cms
Provenance: private collection Hampshire £300-500
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Provenance: private collection Lincolnshire £300-500
‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on boardYr Wyddfa (Snowdon), from Llyn Padarn, signed, 40 x 49cms
‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Snowdon From Llyn Mymbyr’, signed, 24 x 55cms
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Merioneth Lake’, signed in full, 24 x 54cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £300-400
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Anglesey Farmhouse’, signed, 13.5 x 49cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd £300-400
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Harbour Cottages’, signed, 36.5 x 46.5cms
Provenance: private collection Herefordshire
£300-500
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Llyn Crafnant’, signed, 23.5 x 53.5cms
Provenance: private collection Portugal
Auctioneer’s Notes: Charles Wyatt Warren’s paintings often depict the valley lakes of Eryri, which have been for many years popular destination for walkers. But in recent times Wyatt Warren’s lakes have become increasingly popular for wild-swimming. Swimming in natural spaces within the Eryri National Park has seen a surge in popularity, the natural waters within the dramatic Welsh mountain landscape having a powerful draw for those who enjoy braving the elements. In ‘Wild Swimming Walks Eryri / Snowdonia’ (Wild Things Publishing), author Emma Marshall describes the scene in Crafnant, ‘view from the little beach at the head of the lake, looking up over its waters to the craggy hills of Crimpiau and Craig Wen, is breathtaking and one of the prettiest in Eryri. Both evergreen and deciduous trees fill the beautiful, wooded valley that the lake occupies and, in the spring, it is filled with wild garlic, hence the name ‘Crafnant’, which means ‘garlic stream’
£400-600
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on board - Eryri (Snowdonia) landscape with lake, signed, 28 x 74cms
Provenance: private collection
Ceredigion
£400-500
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Snowdon from Cwm Pennant’, signed, 29 x 74cms
Provenance: private collection
Monmouthshire
£400-500
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Snowdon from Llyn Mymbyr’, signed, 36 x 74cms
Provenance: private collection
Hertfordshire
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‡ CHARLES WYATT WARREN oil on board - Llyn Padarn, Eryri (Snowdonia) with Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) inscribed verso, ‘Elaine with best wishes Charles Wyatt Warren’, signed, 36 x 90cms
Provenance: private collection Merthyr
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WORKS BY DAVID WOODFORD (b.1938)
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD (b.1938) large, fine exhibition quality oil on canvas - Eryri (Snowdonia) with clouds and shaft of sunlight illuminating Blaen y Nant, Nant Ffrancon and Cwm Idwal, as viewed by the artist from the lower slopes of Pen yr Ole Wen, near the artist’s home, inscribed verso, 82 x 118cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands, smaller version of this scene illustrated as Plate 32, ‘The Art of David Woodford - Mountains and Memories’ by Tom Dutton (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch) 2016
Auctioneer’s Note (Dr Harry Heuser): rooted in the experience of nature and its close observation, David Woodford’s paintings are at once monumental and of the moment. Ranging from pochades (or pocket-size plein-air sketches) of arresting immediacy to sublime large-scale canvases, such as this example, on which the artist keeps working in his studio for as long as ten years, these landscapes are as much concerned with the eternal as they are with the evanescent.
Woodford captures the distinctive features of the rugged Welsh countryside, with special focus on the grandeur of Eryri (Snowdonia), where the Shropshire-born artist has been living for over half a century. More than achieving topographical transcripts of the land, however, his paintings captivate us with their intentness on the atmosphere and the mercurial temperament of the elements – the ‘fugitive … moods’ of nature, as Woodford puts it – that make startlingly new and revelatory what we might assume to be unchanging.
A Royal Cambrian Academician who trained at West Sussex College of Art and, as a mature student returning to college
after a five-year period of teaching, at the Royal Academy Schools in London, Woodford has been committed to a sustained engagement with nature since the late 1960s. At a time when drawing and painting were being challenged by conceptualism, when academic and curatorial attention was diverted from traditional methods and materials to new media, Woodford set out rigorously to pursue the essentials that many practitioners and educators temporarily and, in some cases, permanently abandoned. As Woodford acknowledges, his practice has benefitted greatly from the instruction and insights he received in his schooling from ‘painters who taught, not teachers who painted.’ Woodford’s works have been exhibited widely in England and Wales; a major retrospective featuring over 200 paintings and drawings was staged in 2023 at Oriel Môn. The subject of books including The Art of David Woodford (2016), his works are in the collections of The Arts Council, The National Library of Wales, and the National Museum of Wales.
Woodford’s landscapes are only gaining in relevance. They are increasingly resonant in an age in which human interventions into nature threaten what we thought would not only take care of itself but continue to sustain us. Anticipating contemporary debates, Woodford has long presented us with a world without people, a world that, he says, ‘will survive without them.’ Contemplative, studious and unwavering, his art, both singly and collectively, brings home how rewarding a lifelong creative process of discovery can be.
Dr Harry Heuser, curator, art writer and researcher, co-author of Welsh artist biographies £4,000-6,000
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD oil on card - entitled verso, ‘Bethesda Quarry’, signed, 18 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £300-400
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD oil on card - Eryri (Snowdonia) winter landscape, signed, 16.5 x 27cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £300-400
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Tryfan’, signed, 22.5 x 20cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £300-400
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Tryfan and the Glyders’, 14.5 x 19cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £300-400
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD oil on board - Eryri (Snowdonia) under stormy sky, entitled verso, ‘On the Glyders’, signed verso, 13 x 19cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £250-350
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD oil on boardEryri (Snowdonia) landscape with clouds, 18 x 23.5cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £250-350
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD pencil and wash - entitled verso, ‘Nant Gwynant, Under Crib Goch’, signed, dated verso 2002, 33 x 41cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £200-300
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD watercolour - Eryri (Snowdonia) landscape, inscribed verso, ‘Pen Maen’, signed, 21 x 28cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £200-300
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD watercolour - Eryri (Snowdonia) landscape with sheep in the foreground, signed, 21 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £200-300
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD oil on card - entitled verso, ‘Cwm Caseg in January’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso 1999, 16 x 27.5cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £200-300
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD oil on card - entitled verso, ‘Snowdon’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso 1999, 18 x 29.5cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £200-300
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‡ DAVID WOODFORD oil on card - landscape with rain clouds, signed, 12 x 18cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd £100-200
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WORKS BY HUGH HUGHES (1790-1863)
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HUGH HUGHES (1790-1863) oil on canvas - 1822 head and shoulders self-portrait, inscribed on stretcher ‘Portrait of H.Hughes painted by himself, 1822’, and ‘Died at Malvern March 11th 1863’, 29 x 24cms
Provenance: passed through several generations from artist to present owner an ancestor of Hugh Hughes, none of the artist’s children survived him so the picture descended in the family from one of the artist’s siblings, probably John Hughes formerly of Meddiant, Glan Conwy, Auctioneer’s Notes: in 1822 Hugh Hughes (1790-1863) had completed the several tours of Wales that he had undertaken since 1819, drawing landscapes and buildings for his volume of wood engravings, The Beauties of Cambria . However, the final group of engravings was not issued until 1823, and it seems likely that Hughes was still at work on them when he painted this self-portrait. Many of the engravings were undertaken while staying at his mother’s family home, Meddiant, Glan Conwy, and the family provenance of the portrait suggests that it too was painted there. Hughes holds his silver drawing pencil, and it may be that the portrait marks the completion of the three year’s work that the preparation of The Beauties of Cambria had entailed. Our thanks to art historian Peter Lord for assisting with research on the paintings by Hugh Hughes in this auction
Comments: later but synthetic antique moulded gilt frame, relined and stabilised, ready to hang £1,500-2,500
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HUGH HUGHES (1790-1863) oil on canvas - circa 1848 halfportrait of the artist’s son Thomas Charles Hughes, aged 16, 27 x 20cms
Provenance: picture known to have been formerly inscribed verso, ‘T.C. Hughes, aged 16’ but now lost / not visible as a result of lining of canvas. By descent through several generations from artist to present owner an ancestor, none of the artist’s children survived Hugh Hughes so the picture descended in the family from one of the artist’s siblings, probably John Hughes formerly of Meddiant, Glan Conwy Auctioneer’s Notes: Hugh Hughes painted at least four portraits of his son, Thomas Charles Hughes (1832-1851), the second of his three children by his wife Sarah. He had been named after Sarah’s uncle, Revd Thomas Charles of Bala. The present portrait was painted a few years before the sitter’s death at the age of 18, on 1st July, 1851. Like his sister, Sarah Phillips Hughes, Thomas Charles Hughes had received the encouragement of his father to paint and ‘A view of Pont Aberglaslyn’ (1848) survives in the collection of the National Library of Wales. Our thanks to art historian Peter Lord for assisting with research on the paintings by Hugh Hughes in this auction
Comments: framed, relined, ready to hang £500-800
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HUGH HUGHES (1790-1863) oil on canvas - circa 1815-1820 half-portrait of John Hughes, inscribed verso John Hughes painted by his brother Hugh Hughes, 33 x 25cms
Provenance: later inscription verso believed to be a copy of lost inscription as the painting has been relined, please see provenance in Lot 311
Auctioneer’s Notes: Hugh Hughes was the eldest of seven children of whom four survived to adulthood, the sitter, his younger brother, John, was born in 1795, and the portrait appears to depict him in his twenties. Hughes’s work as a portrait painter evolved considerably in the decade after his earliest known works were painted in 1812. The style of the present portrait suggests a date after 1820. Our thanks to art historian Peter Lord for assisting with research on the paintings by Hugh Hughes in this auction
Comments: framed, relined, ready to hang £300-500
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HUGH HUGHES (1790-1863) oil on canvas - circa 1812 halfportrait of William Williams, probably the artist’s maternal uncle, inscribed indistinctly to top stretcher ‘William Williams of Meddiant’, 33 x 27cms
Provenance: inscription verso can be viewed better with UV light, see full provenance in Lot 311
Auctioneer’s Notes: our thanks to art historian Peter Lord for assisting with research on the paintings by Hugh Hughes in this auction
Comments: framed, surface scratches, relined £150-250
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‡ CHARLES WHITE oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Lambing in Welsh Mountains’, signed and dated ‘59, 60 x 72cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £150-250
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‡ MARY GRIFFITHS oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Eve’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 1997, 52 x 35cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £150-250
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‡ DANIEL CRAWSHAW oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Nant Ffrancon 1’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2016, 30 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £150-250
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‡ SHAUN G DAY oil on linen on panel - entitled verso, ‘Portrait study’ on Fountain Fine Art Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2011, 20 x 17cms
Provenance: private collection
Neath-Port Talbot £150-200
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‡ JOAN BAKER oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Fruit Cage’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 1952, 56 x 47cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £150-250
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‡ ALAN SALISBURY mixed media and oil on glass panel - entitled verso, ‘Durer’s Cock’ on Kooywood Gallery Cardiff label, 23 x 18cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £200-400
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Provenance: private collection Pembrokeshire £200-300
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: the book, slipcase format, is unused £200-300
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £200-300
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: later framed £200-300
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Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £200-300
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‡ ANDREW DOUGLAS FORBES gouache on card - entitled verso ‘Finished for the Day’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 21 x 93cms
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‡ BRENDAN STUART BURNS oil and wax on board - entitled verso, ‘Shadow Into Parent Light Series, Weep’ on Kooywood Gallery label, dated verso 2010, 25 x 30cms together with a signed copy of the book ‘Glimpse’ the body of work by Brendan Stuart Burns
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‡ BRENDAN STUART BURNS oil, wax and graphite on board - entitled verso, ‘Liquid Light Series, Nocturne’, signed and dated 2008 verso, 20 x 25cms
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‡ DICK CHAPPELL oil on panel - entitled verso, ‘Beating on Clouds’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso ‘93, 29 x 29cms
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‡ DICK CHAPPELL oil on panel - entitled verso, ‘Sound Dampened by Mist’, on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2006, 29 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £200-300
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‡ DONNA CRAWSHAW oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Snow, Snow, Snow’ on The Gallery at Trap label, signed in full, 25 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £200-300
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‡ EMRYS WILLIAMS acrylic on panel - entitled verso, ‘Parrot and Mirror’ on Underground Gallery label, inscribed and dated verso 1998, 60 x 45cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £200-400
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‡ EVAN CHARLTON oil on board - seated three-quarter portrait of Zillah Silcocks, signed, 91 x 70cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £200-300
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‡ JOHN BOWEN oil on board - entitled verso, ‘The Straw Hat’, signed, 27 x 24.5cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea £200-300
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‡ MARY GRIFFITHS oil on panel - entitled verso, ‘La Petite Danseuse’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated 2010 verso, 30 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £200-300
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Provenance: private collection Cheshire £200-300
‡ RALPH SPILLER
on cardlandscape and village, signed with initials and dated ‘95, 40 x 50cms
Provenance: private collection Flintshire £200-300
Provenance: artist’s family
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd £200-300
x 29cms
Provenance: private collection Hertfordshire £250-350
‡ CHARLES WHITE oil on
- entitled verso, ‘Bethesda’r Fro’, signed and dated ‘68, 19.5 x 27cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff Auctioneer’s Notes: a simple whitewashed chapel in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan it was established in 1807 when Thomas William brought his congregation here from Burton, Aberthaw. The land had been purchased from Thomas Redwood for five shillings. William was a Welsh hymn writer of some repute £250-350
Provenance: artist’s family £250-350
Provenance: private collection Herefordshire £250-350
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‡ PIP KNIGHT-JONES acrylic on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Fron, Towards Snowdonia’, signed, 96 x 76cms
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‡ STEVEN JONES acrylic - entitled, ‘Llanddwyn Beach’, signed in pencil, 35 x 54cms
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‡ AUDREY HIND oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Farm, Trecastell’, signed, 19
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‡ DAVID BARNES oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Near Rowen’, signed verso, 26.5 x 39cms
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ALAN WILLIAMS acrylic - entitled verso, ‘Cockle Pickers’, signed, 33 x 51cms
£250-350
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ALAN WILLIAMS acrylic - entitled verso, ‘The Catch’, signed, 33 x 50cms
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Provenance:
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‡ GARETH THOMAS oil on boardentitled verso, ‘Three Cliffs from Penmaen’, signed, 24 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea £250-350
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mixed media on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Three CliffsGower Peninsula’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 23 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £250-350
Provenance: private collection Flintshire
19TH CENTURY WELSH PRIMITIVE oil on canvas - folk art portrait of a brig struggling in a storm at sea, with small naive figures, 51 x 58cms
Provenance: from an historic country property in Lleyn Peninsula where it has hung for generations, possibly relating to a vessel built at one of the nearby Porthmadog shipyards
Comments: in likely to be original maple wood frame with gilt slip, canvas aged and with slight incision, no labels or information verso, please see further images £300-500
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‡ RALPH SPILLER oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Bargoed Terrace’, signed with initials and dated ‘92, 18 x 38cms
£250-350
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‡ RALPH SPILLER oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Singleton, Brynymor’, signed with initials and dated ‘92, 21 x 34cms
£250-350
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‡ ALAN WILLIAMS acrylic - entitled verso, ‘Coraclers’, signed, 33 x 51cms
artist’s family £300-400
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ALFRED WORTHINGTON oil on boardentitled verso ‘Glaspwll, Llyfnant Valley’ on Windmill Gallery label, Aberystwyth, 50 x 64cms
Provenance: to accompany a handwritten George V stamped pictorial postcard of the same location, private collection Ceredigion £300-400
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‡ AUDREY HIND oil on board - entitled verso ‘Cefn Coch’ signed, 49 x 89cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £300-500
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‡ AUDREY HIND oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Mountain Road, Holyhead’, signed, 24 x 49cms
Provenance: private collection Hertfordshire £300-500
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‡ CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS RBA oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Fairweather Clouds, Carmarthenshire’, 23 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: pinholes in the corners of the canvas, large creases in the canvas from top right corner to the bottom £300-400
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £300-500
‡ DAVID KNIGHT oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Tie’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 54 x 42cms
Provenance: private collection Rhondda Cynon Taff £300-500
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‡ ARTHUR PRITCHARD oil on board - Bull Bay, Anglesey, signed, 29 x 61cms
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‡ FRANCES RICHARDS embroidery on silk - entitled verso, ‘Head on Gold Silk’, signed with initials, 22 x 22cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £300-500
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‡ GARETH THOMAS oil - entitled verso, ‘Sunlit Lane, Haverfordwest’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 26 x 34cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £300-500
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‡ GARETH THOMAS oil on boardGower coastal cliffs, signed, 39.5 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea £300-400
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FRANCIS EMIL KRAUSE (German. 1836-1900) oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘A Welsh Cottage’, signed, 25 x 19cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £300-500
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‡ HELEN STEINTHAL oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Above Creigiau, Dref Tremadog’ signed with initials, 50 x 60cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands
Comments: verso a painting of white horse amongst palms £300-400
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‡ HELEN STEINTHAL oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Snowstorm’, signed verso, 50 x 60cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £300-400
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‡ JACK CRABTREE oil on paperentitled verso, ‘Valleys Landscape’, signed, 29 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £300-400
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JAMES WEBB (English 1825-1895) oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Beddgelert, On the Road to Porthmadog’ signed and dated 1876, 30 x 60cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £300-400
- entitled verso, ‘Nude Study No.4’, artist’s studio stamp and dated 1990 verso, 34 x 42cms
Provenance: estate of artist and latterly private collection Ceredigion £300-500
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £300-400
with initials and fully verso, 44 x 34cms
Provenance: private collection Pontypridd £300-500
Provenance: artist’ estate, then private collection Ceredigion £300-500
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‡ JOHN ELWYN oil on board - nude study, artist’s studio stamp verso, 37 x 49cms
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‡ MATTHEW SNOWDEN acrylic on panel - river and trees, possibly Afon Glaslyn, signed, 25 x 32cms
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‡ PETER JOHN JONES acrylic on board - entitled verso, ‘Remembering When’, signed
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‡ ROBERT FOWLER oil on canvassailing boats on the Conwy estuary from Deganwy, signed, 40 x 55cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £300-400
‡ ROBERT FOWLER oil on canvas - Ynys Mon (Anglesey) garden with Caernarfon in the distance across the Menai, signed, 39 x 54cms
Provenance: private collection West Midlands £300-500
TOM JONES oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Llyn Landscape’, signed with monogram, 59 x 118cms
Provenance: artist’s estate £300-500
‡ WILF ROBERTS oil - entitled verso, ‘Creigiau, Ynys Lawd / Rocks, South Stack’, signed and dated 1999, 28 x 20cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £300-500
‡ ANDREW VICARI oil on board - figures flying kites, signed, 90 x 16cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea £400-500
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DAVID KNIGHT oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Bedside’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 65 x 47cms
Provenance: private collection Rhondda Cynon Taff £400-600
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‡ ERIC MALTHOUSE oil on boardentitled verso, ‘Mother and Child’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated verso 1950, 45 x 35cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £400-600
CHARLES BURTON oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Pears and Cherries’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, dated verso 2002, 32 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Pembrokeshire £400-600
‡ GARETH THOMAS oil - entitled verso, ‘Rain Near Aberdaron’ on Albany Gallery label, signed in full, 36 x 36cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £400-600
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GARETH THOMAS oil on boardentitled verso, ‘White House Near Pernesles-Fontaines’ on Fountain Fine Art Gallery label, signed, 33 x 42cms
Provenance: private collection Rhondda Cynon Taff £400-600
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‡ GWILYM PRICHARD oil on board - entitled on original retained frame, ‘Ty Newydd-Fferm’, signed verso, 21 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection
Neath-Port Talbot
Comments: later framed, ready to hang, with additional original frame £400-600
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GWILYM PRICHARD oil on boardlandscape, possibly Greece, entitled verso, ‘Poplars of Keramp…’ on Heals Art Gallery label, signed, 19.5 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection
Neath-Port Talbot £400-600
with initials, 40 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £400-700
376
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GWILYM PRICHARD oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Ffestiniog’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed with initials and fully verso, dated 2010 verso, 23 x 33cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £400-700
377
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GWILYM PRICHARD oil on panellandscape with buildings and trees, signed, 19 x 29cms
Provenance: deceased estate Ynys Mon, by descent £400-600
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IWAN GWYN PARRY oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Burning Gorse, Melting Snow’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2006, 61 x 76cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: unframed canvas, ready to hang £400-600
380
‡ RAYMOND MARTINEZ oil on panelentitled verso, ‘Oil Tanks, Barry Docks’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, 92 x 61cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan, with original ‘Industrial Wales Exhibition Tag, 1960’ £400-600
381
‡ TOM GERRARD oil on panel - entitled verso, ‘Talwrn, Anglesey’, on Martin Tinney Gallery label, 37 x 52cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £400-600
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‡ GWYN ROBERTS oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Idwal Slabs’ on Albany Gallery label, signed
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140
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‡ VIVIENNE WILLIAMS oil on paper - entitled verso, ‘Dark Table with Tulips’, 56 x 76cms
Provenance: private collection Rhondda Cynon Taff £400-600
383
‡ WILL ROBERTS oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Flower Piece’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, 60 x 50cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £400-600
384
‡ THOMAS RATHMELL oil on canvas - entitled verso ‘The Garden Portrait’, signed, dated verso ‘72, 47 x 57cms
Provenance: acquired directly form the artist, private collection Cardiff Auctioneer’s Notes: the subject is the artist’s daughter, Elizabeth (Betty), and first wife of musician Ian Dury £450-650
385
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS RBA oil on panel - entitled verso, ‘Welsh Landscape’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated 1913, 29 x 37cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £500-700
386
‡ GWYN ROBERTS oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Golau ar Fae Ceredigion’ (Light over Ceredigion Bay) on Fountain Arts Gallery label, signed, 61 x 76cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £500-700
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire
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‡ MATTHEW SNOWDEN acrylic on panel - coastal cliffs, signed, 46 x 61cms
£500-700
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‡ MEIRION GINSBERG oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Topless Self Portrait’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated 2010 verso, 51 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Bridgend £500-800
389
‡ ROBERT DAWSON oil on board - village scene with white cottages, signed with initials, 48 x 60cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £500-700
‡ VIVIENNE LUXTON oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Long Shadows, Tenby’ on Albany Gallery label, signed and dated ‘11, 50 x 59cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £500-800
390
‡ TOM GERRARD oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Bryniau Bodafon, Anglesey’, signed, 30 x 60cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £500-800
‡ WILF ROBERTS acrylic on paper - Ynys Mon (Anglesey) landscape with rooftops and Parys Mountain beyond, signed and dated 1997, 19 x 27cms
Provenance: private collection £500-700
‡ WILLIAM BROWN oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Brown Bear Admiring Venus of Blaengwynfi’, signed and dated 1998 verso, 48 x 102cms
Provenance: private collection Herefordshire, purchased by the vendor from the artist’s widow, copy of receipt
Comments: unframed canvas, ready to hang £500-600
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390
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‡ ANEURIN JONES oil on paperstanding farmer, with message verso, ‘Dymuniadau Gorau’, signed, 32 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection
Ceredigion
Comments: sl. localised lifting to paper
£600-800
395
‡ DAVID GROSVENOR oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Clogwyn y Barcut, Drws-y-Coed’ on Ffin y Parc Gallery label, signed, 79 x 79cms
Provenance: private collection
Denbighshire
£600-800
396
‡ EDWIN FORREST oil on board - entitled verso, ‘The Landing, Ellesmere’, signed, 53 x 71cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £600-800
397
‡ GARETH PARRY oil on canvasentitled verso ‘Tri Cymydog, Ar Foncyn / Three Friends on a Hillside’, signed, 49 x 59cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
£600-900
398
‡ GWYN ROBERTS oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Tryfan a Llyn Ogwen’ on Albany Gallery label, signed with initials and fully verso, 59 x 42cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire
£600-1,000
399
‡ JOHN ELWYN oil on canvaslandscape with lane and buildings, signed and dated verso 1989, 39 x 50cms
Provenance: artist’s estate and then private collection Ceredigion £600-800
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- entitled verso, ‘Maentwrog, N.Wales’, signed, dated verso 1977, 24 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea £600-800
Provenance: private collection Bridgend £600-800
400
‡ KEITH BOWEN oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Whistling the Dogs’, signed, dated verso 2003, 18 x 24cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £600-1,000
401
‡ MARTIN LLEWELLYN oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Cottage, Garn Fawr’ on Fountain Fine Art label, signed with initials, 59 x 59cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea £600-800
402
‡ MATTHEW SNOWDEN acrylic on canvasentitled verso, ‘Afon Ogwen, Cwm Idwal’, signed, 99 x 69cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire £600-1,000
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS RBA oil on panel - entitled verso, ‘Bussana Vecchia’, signed, 39 x 31cms
Provenance: private collection London £700-1,000
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400
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‡ NICK HOLLY oil on canvas laid on board - football supporters outside the players entrance at Swansea City’s stadium, signed, 28 x 28cms
404
oil on canvas
405
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144
403
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‡ IFOR PRITCHARD oil on canvas - quarrymen tipping a wagon, signed, 60 x 45cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd £700-1,000
407
‡ JOHN ELWYN acrylic on paper - entitled verso, ‘Dyfed Farm III’, signed, dated verso 1984, 27 x 36cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion £700-1,000
408
‡ MEIRION GINSBERG oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Camera Kid’ on Oriel Tegfryn Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2012, 59.5 x 50cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £700-1,000
409
‡ MEIRION GINSBERG oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Old Couple’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2013, 49.5 x 39.5cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £700-1,000
410
‡ WYNNE JENKINS oil on canvas - entitled verso ‘Bwthyn Traeth’, signed verso, 24 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £700-1,000
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Rogers
Provenance: private collection Derbyshire
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‡ GWYN ROBERTS oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Crib Goch, Crib y Ddysgl a’r Wyddfa / Snowdon’ on Albany Gallery label, signed with initials, 119 x 119cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £800-1,400
412
‡ HYWEL HARRIES oil on board - fishing boats in ‘the gap’ near Aberystwyth harbour, signed and dated ‘68, 32 x 46cms
Provenance: wedding gift 1960s, same family ownership since £800-1,200
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‡ RAY HOWARD JONES oil on canvas - abstract with bird, horse and figure in the foreground, signed and dated ‘55, 49.5 x 75cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £800-1,200
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‡ WYNNE JENKINS oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Beach House, Abereiddy’, signed verso, 39 x 50cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £800-1,200
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Auctioneer’s Notes: Ebbw Victor is regarded as the most successful Welsh Cob Section D stallion of all time, it is believed that a staggeringly high proportion of Royal Welsh Showfeatured cobs have been sired by Ebbw. A legend in Welsh Cob circles! £1,000-1,500
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‡ ANEURIN JONES oil on board - elderly farmer with stick, signed, 50 x 40cms
£1,000-1,500
416
‡ ANEURIN JONES oil on board - standing Welsh cob, inscribed verso, ‘Ebbw’, signed, 55 x 70cms
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EDWIN
- entitled
‘Welsh
and dated 1871, 39 x 59
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion, with Rogers Jones 26/04/08 Lot 259
Comments: heavy ornate frame, good overall, ready to hang £1,000-1,500
420
NYC’, signed, dated verso 2007, 100 x 70cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £1,000-1,500
Near Nazareth’, (sic), signed, 50 x 75cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: may benefit from light clean £1,000-1,500
69 x 43cms
Provenance: private collection Bridgend £1,000-1,500
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £1,000-1,500
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50 x 60cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £1,000-1,500
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‡ NICK HOLLY oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Steeplechase Pier, Coney Island,
‡ SALLY MOORE oil on panel - entitled verso, ‘Baptism’, signed and dated verso 2002,
421
‡ SALLY MOORE oil on panelentitled verso, ‘Globe Trotter’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 2009, 26 x 32cms
422
‡ WYNNE JENKINS oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Aberdyfi’, signed verso,
417
BENJAMIN WILLIAMS LEADER RA oil on board - ‘Llyn Llydaw’, signed
FORREST oil on board
verso,
Hill Farm
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on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Cnicht’ on Attic Gallery label, signed, dated verso ‘92, 44 x 53cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £1,500-2,500
423
‡ JACK JONES oil on board - figures in street with The Flint Mill establishment and Parry Jones Wholesale Grocer, signed and dated, 27 x 33.5cms
Provenance: purchased by the vendor’s family at the ‘Exhibition of Paintings by Jack Jones’ held at the Swansea Arts Workshop from 31st August to 16th September 1977 for £50, photocopy of exhibition details available, one family ownership £1,200-1,800
424
‡ ANEURIN JONES oil on board - two female cockle pickers with a donkey in the background, signed verso, 62 x 52cms
Provenance: private collection Derbyshire £1,500-2,500
425
‡ GWILYM PRICHARD oil on boardentitled verso, ‘Twigs by a Window’, signed, 90 x 42cms
Provenance: private collection Essex £1,500-2,500
IFOR PRITCHARD oil on canvas - portrait of a Dinorwic slate splitter known in Welsh as a ‘holltwr’, signed, 59 x 35cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire
Auctioneer’s Notes: remembering the song ‘Y Chwarelwr’ (The Quarryman), sung by Leah Owen (1953-2024) who died earlier this year, Leah Owen was a highly influential figure in Welsh music, was awarded the Sir T.H. Parry Williams Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 2010, a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Denbighshire Community Awards ceremony in 2023, and an honorary Doctor of Music from Bangor University for her contribution to Welsh and Welsh culture, music and arts £1,500-2,500
Y Chwarelwr (lyrics by Lisi Jones) 1974 Llechen yn tincial sydd falm i’r galon Yn aur gloch ar ei glyw; A diau dan hud y dewin Ei allu i drin y gyllell Yn rhoi ansawadd i’r Prinsis
A’r Cowntis a’r Dytsis yn datsain Yna’i dasg fesul mwrw eu dwyn I’r cei megis saffir coeth
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GWILYM PRICHARD oil
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Provenance: purchased by the vendor’s family at the ‘Exhibition of Paintings by Jack Jones’ held at the Swansea Arts Workshop from 31st August to 16th September 1977 for £50, photocopy of exhibition details available, one family ownership £1,500-2,500
Provenance:
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £1,500-2,000
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £1,500-2,500
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £1,500-2,000
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428
‡ JACK JONES oil on canvas - ‘St Ioan’s, Morriston’, figures and dog outside church, bill boards with one reading ‘Croeso Y Gymri’ (sic), beyond the Powell Arms and other Swansea establishments, signed and dated, 29 x 39.5cms
429
‡ KEITH BOWEN oil on board - shepherd in winter landscape, 50 x 74cms
private collection Cheshire £1,500-2,500
428
429
432
431
430
430
‡ NICHOLAS EVANS oil on board - miner and pit pony, signed and dated 1973, 98 x 75cms
431
‡ NICK HOLLY large oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Talacre Lighthouse, Prestatyn, Flintshire’ on Albany Gallery label, signed, 100 x 100cms
432
‡ SALLY MOORE oil on panelentitled verso, ‘Portrait’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 1993, 35 x 20.5cms
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‡ WILF ROBERTS oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Tan y Graig’, signed and dated 2014, 30 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Powys £1,500-2,500
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion £1,800-2,500
435
‡ CARL MELEGARI oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Miner 1’ on Kooywood Gallery label, 46 x 35cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £2,000-3,000
436
ERNEST ZOBOLE large oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Street Incident No.3’, signed and dated verso August ‘86, 127 x 122cms
Provenance: artist’s estate
Comments: framed canvas, ready to hang £2,000-4,000
437
ERNEST ZOBOLE
monumental oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Looking Out’, signed and dated verso Nov/Dec 1986, 116 x 167cms
Provenance: artist’s estate
Comments: unframed canvas £2,000-4,000
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436
435
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‡ WILL ROBERTS oil on board - farmstead, 36 x 43cms
150
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‡ GWILYM PRICHARD large oil on canvaslandscape possibly Pyrenees mountains with glacier, entitled verso, ‘Y Cwm Eira’, on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed, dated 2007 verso, 72 x 144cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £2,000-4,000
439
NEALE HOWELLS mixed media on wood - entitled, ‘Let Me Tell You What I Ain’t’, signed and dated verso 2010, 229 x 122cms
Comments: in two sections, ready to hang £2,000-4,000
440
NEALE HOWELLS mixed media on wood - entitled, ‘The Album Club’, signed and dated verso 2010, 229 x 122cms
Comments: in two sections, ready to hang £2,000-4,000
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441
‡ WILL ROBERTS oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘The Mower’, signed, 49 x 59cms
Provenance: private collection Bridgend £2,000-2,500
442
‡ ERNEST ZOBOLE oil on panel - entitled verso, ‘In The Valley No.5’, inscribed verso, circa 1962, 183 x 122cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £2,500-3,500
443
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HYWEL HARRIES oil on boardsunset over Borth, Ceredigion, with two beachcombers, circa 1970s, signed, 51 x 70cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion Comments: original frame, ready to hang £2,500-3,500
444
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WILF ROBERTS
on
- entitled verso, ‘Pentre Pella’, signed and dated 1999, 55 x 121cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire £2,500-3,500
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441
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canvas
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‡ WILF ROBERTS oil on panelentitled verso, ‘Tan-y-Castell and Cowshed’ on Kooywood Gallery label, signed and dated 2010, 39.5 x 28cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £2,500-3,500
446
‡ KEVIN SINNOTT oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘A Kind of Deposition’ on Fountain Fine Art Gallery label, signed with initials, 54 x 70cms
Provenance: private collection Rhondda Cynon Taff £3,000-4,000
1998, 85 x 104cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £4,000-6,000
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £5,000-7,000
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447
447
‡ SALLY MOORE oil on board - entitled verso, ‘The Franklin’s Tale’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label and additional label for exhibition at Pontypridd Polytechnic ‘88, signed and dated verso
448
‡ SALLY MOORE oil on board - entitled verso, ‘Another Party’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed and dated verso 1992, 95 x 80cms
445
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‡ CHARLES BURTON large oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Red Fruits’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, dated verso 2003, 121 x 150cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff £6,000-8,000
450
‡ KEVIN SINNOTT oil on linen - entitled verso, ‘The Pioneers’ on Martin Tinney Gallery label, signed with initials, dated verso 2000, 176 x 142cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan £7,000-10,000
450
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‡ DONALD MCINTYRE acrylic - upland farm in winter with figure, signed, 56 x 79cms
Provenance: private collection Conwy £6,000-7,000
452
‡ DONALD MCINTYRE oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Sea Iona II’ on Tib Lane Gallery label, signed with initials, 34 x 44cms
Provenance: private collection Rhondda-Cynon-Taff £2,000-3,000
453
‡ DONALD MCINTYRE acrylic - entitled verso, ‘Storm, Port Eynon No.2’ on Thackeray Gallery label, signed, 40 x 82cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea £3,500-4,500
454
‡ DONALD MCINTYRE acrylic on board - entitled verso, ‘Low Tide’ signed with initials, 18 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection South Yorkshire £1,500-2,500
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‡ JONAH JONES sandstone sculpture - two tackling rugby players, entitled ‘Full Back’, 51cms in length
Provenance: collection of John Willcox, former England and British Lion rugby player, North Yorkshire, sculpture was presented to the him at Ratcliffe College
Auctioneer’s Notes: it is rare for Jonah Jones’ sculptures to appear on the market, see similar at Glynn Vivian Gallery Swansea, titled ‘Jacob and the Angel’, a sculpture influenced by German expressionist Ernst Barlach (1870-1938)
Comments: restoration to leg £300-400
456
‡ DAVID WILLIAMS-ELLIS limited edition (12/25) bronze maquettes - portrait of a seated Sir Kyffin Williams RA (1918-2006) sketching, signed with initials, dated 2012 and numbered 12, 27cms h
Provenance: private collection
Auctioneer’s Notes: the large full-size bronze version is exhibited in the grounds of Oriel Ynys Mon (Anglesey), and was funded by the sale of the twenty-five maquettes in 2012 £300-400
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455
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Coins, Watches and Jewellery – Lots 500-549
ROYAL MINT THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ENTENTE CORDIALE 1904 GOLD SET, L imited Edition (98/600), comprising Edward VII 1904 gold sovereign and a 1904 French 20 Francs coin, in capsules with certificate of authenticity booklet and original box
Provenance: deceased estate Cardiff
Comments: very good overall, light wear to box £400-600
ROYAL MINT THE SOVEREIGN 2015 THREE-COIN GOLD PROOF SET, Limited Edition (103/1000), comprising sovereign, half-sovereign and quarter-sovereign, in capsules with certificate of authenticity, booklet, original box, outer box and sleeve
Provenance: deceased estate Cardiff
Comments: very good overall £800-1,200
Provenance: deceased estate Cardiff
Comments: wear commensurate with age overall, see close up images £400-500
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY ‘THE EMPIRE COLLECTION’ GOLD COIN SET, comprising nine gold proof £2 coins, each weighing 8gms, dated 2019, Limited Edition (17/100), in presentation box with booklet and outer box
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: very good overall £1,500-2,500
500
501
502
GEORGE III GOLD ‘SPADE’ GUINEA, 1790, fifth laureate head right, 7.9gms, in capsule
503
503
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501
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500
Provenance: deceased estate Cardiff
Comments: very good overall £800-1,200
Provenance: deceased estate Cardiff
Comments: wear commensurate with age overall, see close up images £400-600
Provenance: deceased estate Cardiff
Comments: very good overall £800-1,200
£100, £50, £25 and £10 coins, in capsules with certificate of authenticity and original box
Provenance: deceased estate Cardiff
Comments: very good overall, wear to box, clasp not catching £2,000-3,000
504
GEORGE III GOLD ‘SPADE’ GUINEA, 1794, fifth laureate head right, 8.4gms, in capsule and box
505
ROYAL MINT THE SOVEREIGN 2017 THREE-COIN GOLD PROOF SET, Limited Edition (542/1000), comprising sovereign, half-sovereign and quartersovereign, in capsules with certificate of authenticity, booklet, original box, outer box and sleeve box
506
ROYAL MINT 1994 GOLD PROOF BRITANNIA COLLECTION, Limited Edition (120/500), comprising
507
ROYAL MINT THE SOVEREIGN 2016 THREE-COIN GOLD PROOF SET, Limited Edition (275/750), comprising sovereign, half-sovereign and quarter-sovereign, in capsules with certificate of authenticity, booklet, original box, outer box and sleeve
507
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ROYAL MINT 1980 FOUR COIN GOLD PROOF SET, comprising encapsulated £5, £2, Sovereign and half Sovereign in original case with COA, and original shipping cardboard box
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Comments: excellent £2,000-3,000
511
508 GROUP OF COLLECTABLE GOLD COINS comprising an Islamic Abbasid gold dinar, 4.0gms, Conrad III 1 Goldgulden, bishop with crozier, star to right, 3.4gms, Republic of Venice 1 Zecchino gold coin, 3.4gms, drilled Mahmud II Ottoman gold coin, 0.6gms (4)
Provenance: deceased estate Cardiff
Comments: viewing recommended £600-1,000
509
510
VICTORIAN GOLD £2 (DOUBLE SOVEREIGN), 1887, Jubilee head, 16.0gms, in square capsule and box
Provenance: deceased estate Cardiff
Comments: very good overall £600-800
14CT GOLD AMERICAN FULL HUNTER POCKET WATCH, top wind, stepped Roman & Arabic white enamel dial signed ‘Marshall Field & Co. Chicago’, subsidiary seconds, cuvette engraved ‘Evan Jones’, 3/4 plate 15J lever movement numbered 1309768, stamped ‘Safety Pionion’, chased shoulders and engine turned case, 50mm diam
Provenance: by descent, private collection Cardiff, Evan Jones who’s name appears on the back of the watch was the vendor’s father’s grandfather’s brother who emigrated from Bryncrug, Gwynedd to Chicago, Illinois. Evan Jones worked in the ribbon department at Marshall Field and Company, commonly known as Marshall Field’s, an upscale department store in Chicago. Founded in the 19th century, it grew to become a large chain before Macy’s, Inc. acquired the company in 2005. Evan Jones was given the pocket watch on his retirement from the company after which he returned to Wales to live Comments: dial cracked and missing glass £400-600
510
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512
VICTORIAN 18CT GOLD CHRONOGRAPH POCKET WATCH, 1882, 2-part enamel dial signed ‘Chas. Keene, Birmingham’, Roman hours and Arabic minutes, outer 1/5th sec. track, centre seconds, caseback with hallmarks and numbered 82520, 3/4 plate jewelled movement with matching number, case maker AW FT, London hallmarks, 52mm diam., 133.9gms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: ticks when wound, stop/start slide not working, not tested for accuracy
£1,000-1,500
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MID-18TH C. GOLD PAIR CASED WATCH, C harles Cabrier, London 1750, with white enamel dial, black Roman numerals and Arabic numeral minute markers, blued beetle and poker hands, pierced scrolled balance bridge with fancy pillars and serpent, diamond end stone, movement signed ‘C. Cabrier, London, 5358’, outer case embossed with classical figures in an interior, within rocaille borders, case maker WB, matching number and hallmarks, 50cms diam
Provenance: private collection North Wales
Comments: outer case unmarked, not working at present, later bulls eye glass, dial cracked, slight corrosion to hands
£1,000-2,000
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CHRONOGRAPH OPEN FACE POCKET WATCH, stepped white enamel dial with Roman numerals, the movement signed Josh Critchley, 16 St John’s Lane, Liverpool, 125.7gms, together with yellow metal propelling pencil (2)
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Comments: glass loose, loop missing, seconds hand tip bent, wear overall to both pieces £500-800
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TWO 18CT GOLD POCKET WATCHES, the larger by Adam Burdess, Coventry, London 1879, with foliate engraved gold dial with black Roman numerals and unusual subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands, signed key wind lever movement numbered 12***, foliate engraved case, 39mm diam. 50.6gms, in J.W. Benson velvet and silk line purple leather case., the smaller a Swiss top wind fob watch, London import marks for 1912, also with subsidiary seconds dial, 30mm diam., 30.9gms (2)
Provenance: private collection Newport
Comments: first-dial numerals slight worn, dial with minor surface scratches, does not wind; secondscratched glass, minor scratches to dial, ticks when wound £400-600
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18CT GOLD J.W. BENSON HALF HUNTER POCKET WATCH, signed white enamel Roman dial with subsidiary seconds, blued steel hands, signed Swiss 15J lever movement stamped 938a, in Dennison case hallmarked for Birmingham 1927, 49mm diam., gross wt 105g
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: back with minor dings, cover with minor scratches, dial good, blue enamel numerals good, ticks when wound, hands adjust as normal £1,200-1,800
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18CT GOLD WALTHAM FULL HUNTER POCKET WATCH, the white enamel dial signed ‘Waltham U.S.A. Colonial’, Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, side wind, 18ct gold cuvette, with 18ct gold bi-colour Albert chain with T-bar and yellow metal circular attachment, 104.1gms gross
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Comments: good overall condition, light wear overall, ticking, not tested long term £1,000-1,500
18K GOLD GENT’S OMEGA ‘CONSTELLATION’ WRISTWATCH, ref. 1061, cal. 712 automatic 24J movement, serial no. 23652xxx, circa 1966, gold dial with applied baton markers, minute markers and sweep centre seconds, signed screwdown case with logo, aftermarket calf strap, 33mm. diam
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: minor surface scratches to case and glass, ticks when wound, not tested for accuracy, strap creased and worn. Due to the opening of the wristwatch case backs, it is recommended watches are re-sealed by professional technicians to ensure any stated water resistance is retained £600-800
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SANTOS DE CARTIER LADIES’ YELLOW GOLD & STAINLESS STEEL AUTOMATIC BRACELET WATCH, Ref: 0907, slate grey dial with gilt hands and centre seconds, signed to case back ‘Cartier Automatique’, sapphire crown, 23mm case, stainless steel and gold screw tapering bracelet signed ‘Cartier’, original box, receipt and International Guarantee Certificate booklet, International Service booklet, repair invoice
Provenance: private collection Pembrokeshire
Comments: good overall, light wear commensurate with age, rare grey dial, ticking not tested long term, guarantee dated 10/10/84, viewing recommended £400-600
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18CT GOLD ROLEX LADIES’ ‘ORCHID’ BRACELET WATCH, ref. 9876, case no. 6***0, Swiss 17J manual wind movement, silvered dial with baton hours and spade hands, facet rim glass, triangular section woven mesh bracelet, deployant clasp, case, movement, dial and clasp all signed, stamped ‘750’, 15mm diam., 34g
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: excellent £600-800
521 SILVER GILT MUST DE CARTIER LADIES’ ‘TANK’ WRISTWATCH, stepped cream dial with Arabic numerals, signed to case back ‘Cartier Paris Vermeil Tank Quartz Argent 925’, sapphire crown, 23mm case, leather strap with Cartier buckle, original receipt and International Guarantee Certificate booklet
Provenance: private collection Pembrokeshire
Comments: good overall, light wear commensurate with age, not tested long term, original reciept from Ernest Jones dated 25/9/93, viewing recommended £300-500
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18k GOLD PATEK PHILIPPE FOR TIFFANY & CO LADIES’ BRACELET WATCH, the signed small circular dial with hour baton markers, inside back cover signed and numbered 2642196 3266, signed movement numbered 987104, integrated 18k gold tapering bracelet, back cover engraved with initials ‘K. D. B’, 40.1gms
Provenance: private collection Caerphilly County Borough
Comments: damage to bracelet, wear overall, viewing recommended £1,000-1,500
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18K GOLD TIFFANY & CO. LADIES’ ‘ATLAS’ WRISTWATCH, Roman numeral bezel, case back signed, US Patent NOD286.753 23152, Tiffany & Co leather strap, 31mm diam
Provenance: private collection Caerphilly County Borough
Comments: light wear, buckle not signed, no box or paperwork, viewing recommended £400-600
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18CT GOLD ROLEX LADIES’ ‘PRECISON’ BRACELET WATCH, case no. 1***1, Swiss cal. 1401 18J manual wind movement, silvered dial with baton hours and spade hands, engraved fancy link bracelet, deployant clasp, case, movement, dial and clasp all signed, stamped ‘18’, 15mm diam., 31.4g
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: excellent £600-800
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18CT GOLD OMEGA GENEVE GENT’S BRACELET WATCH, the gold colour dial with baton hour markers, signed movement cal 601, integrated hinged and textured 14k gold tapering bracelet, diamond set yellow metal dolphin attachment, 89.5gms, in vintage Omega World Service Organization box
Provenance: private collection Conwy County Borough
Comments: with O’Hare’s insurance valuation dated October 1986, slightly twisted, ticking not tested long term, viewing recommended £1,000-2,000
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18CT WHITE GOLD ZENITH LADIES’ BRACELET WATCH, diamond bezel, silvered dial with Roman numerals at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o’clock, quartz movement, integrated tapering 18ct white gold bracelet, 45.4gms in box
Provenance: private collection Torfaen
Comments: light wear overall, slightly twisted, viewing recommended £1,000-1,500
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Comments: appears in good overall condition, not tested long term, light wear overall £1,000-1,500
YELLOW METAL DOUBLE FLOWER HEAD DIAMOND BROOCH, each flowerhead encrusted with graduated old cut diamonds, the two principal stones measuring 0.5cts each approx., 14.3gms, in vintage Martin & Co of Cheltenham jewellery box
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: all stones present, inclusions throughout, diamonds bright and well matched, viewing recommended £600-1,000
OMEGA SPEEDMASTER AUTOMATIC ‘REDUCED’ STAINLESS STEEL WRISTWATCH, signed black dial, luminous baton hour markers, minute track, three subsidiary dials arranged as running seconds at 3, 12-hour totalizer at 6 and 30-minute totalizer at 9, tachymetre bezel, the case back marked Speedmaster, signed stainless steel bracelet numbered 1469 and the end links 811, in box with International Warranty Card, operating booklets
Provenance: private collection Torfaen
Comments: crown missing, wear overall, ticking, not tested long term, box scuffed with losses, viewing recommended £800-1,200
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18CT WHITE GOLD BUECHE GIROD LADY’S WRISTWATCH, the circular bezel set with diamonds and sapphires, cobalt blue dial, integrated 18ct white gold tapering textured bracelet, 51.3gms
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9CT GOLD DIAMOND TENNIS BRACELET, square panel design, integrated clasp with safety chain, 2.0cts overall approx., 16.8gms
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire
Comments: good overall, all stones present £300-500
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CHERRY RED AMBER BAKELITE GRADUATED BEAD NECKLACE, beads from 30mm to 13mm (w), appr. 102cms (long), 99gms
Provenance: private collection North Wales
Comments: good overall strung on red cord £400-600
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18CT GOLD TRIPLE ROW WIDE BRACELET, flower head and crescent link, integrated box link clasp, 19cms long, stamped ‘750’, 29.1gms
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire
Comments: good overall condition, clasp working well, light wear £700-900
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18CT GOLD SAPPHIRE & DIAMOND THREE STONE RING, the central oval cut sapphire measuring 2.1cts approx., flanked by two round brilliant cut diamonds measuring 0.7cts overall approx., ring size Q, 3.4gms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Comments: insurance document states - diamond clarity SI, colour H/I, viewing recommended £500-700
18CT GOLD DIAMOND SOLITAIRE RING, the single claw set round brilliant stone measuring 2.2cts approx., ring size O, 4.3gms, in modern ring box
Provenance: family ownership for three generations since the 1950s
Comments: 2023 insurance document states Colour K-L, Clarity SI1, viewing highly recommended £4,500-5,500
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WHITE METAL SAPPHIRE & DIAMOND CLUSTER RING, the three vertical sapphires complimented by six old cut diamonds, ring size L 1/2, 3.1gms, in modern ring box
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan
Comments: white metal believed platinum, inclusions in diamonds £600-800
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9CT GOLD SNAKE COILED BANGLE, the snake head terminal set with two ruby eyes, 26.3gms
Provenance: private collection Pembrokeshire
Comments: the item has a lightweight steel spring within, light wear overall £300-500
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SEVEN STONE DIAMOND & 18CT WELSH GOLD HALF HOOP RING, the modern brilliant cut diamonds about 0.35ct each and claw-set in recessed field, 18ct yellow gold setting hallmarked for London 1995 and sponsor AJW, ring size M, overall diamond weight 2.45cts approx., 8.3gms, in scarlet ring box
Provenance: private collection Usk
Comments: colour range G-H-I, clarity range SI1-2, one diamond exhibiting moderate blue fluorescence £2,000-3,000
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PLATINUM DIAMOND SOLITAIRE RING, the single claw set round brilliant cut diamond measuring 1.45cts approx., ring size N, 3.5gms, in vintage Alca ring box
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Comments: insurance valuation states - clarity SI/II, colour I/J, £2,500-3,500
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OPAL & DIAMOND BAR BROOCH, set with seven oval opals of graduating size divided by twenty-two old mine cut diamonds, in unmarked yellow metal valued as 18ct gold, 5cms long, 5.0gms, in B.Barnett (Holborn) silk & velvet lined green leather case
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: very good overall £400-600
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18CT WHITE GOLD AQUAMARINE & DIAMOND CLUSTER RING, the central aquamarine measuring 3.3cts approx., surrounded by twenty-four round brilliant cut diamonds measuring 0.05cts each approx., ring size O 1/2, 6.6gms in vintage John Crouch of Queen Street Cardiff ring box
Provenance: private collection Torfaen
Comments: light wear overall, inclusions, viewing recommended £1,000-1,500
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18TH CENTURY GOLD MOURNING RING, set
with oval cut rock crystal and two rose cut diamond shoulders, the scrolled panel shank engraved and white enamel-filled with inscription: ‘Emblin Mabley OB:8 May 1761 AE:9’, similarly engraved to the inside of the shank: ‘I* Mabley OB:8 June 1764 AE:10’, recording the death of two children, 3.5gms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: very small enamel loss, inside shank worn, vacant receptacle beneath crystal £1,000-1,500
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9CT GOLD TURQUOISE & SEED PEARL BRACELET, of panelled arrow design, 18.5cms long, together with similar 9ct gold turquoise and seed pearl ring, 40.3gms gross in ‘Galerie Jean Renet’ box (2)
Provenance: private collection Torfaen
Comments: light wear overall, clasp working, ring size L, viewing recommended £500-700
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TIFFANY & CO PLATINUM DIAMOND CROSS PENDANT, set with eleven round brilliant cut diamonds, on platinum chain, 3.5gms in Tiffany box and outer box
Provenance: private collection Caerphilly County Borough
Comments: good overall, diamonds bright and well matched, viewing recommended £400-600
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9CT GOLD DIAMOND ENCRUSTED BRACELET, repeating helix design, 19cms long, 14.5gms in box
Provenance: private collection Torfaen
Comments: stamped ‘3.03’ indicating approx. 3cts of diamonds overall, all stones present, clasp broken £1,000-1,500
18CT GOLD RUBY & DIAMOND BANGLE, of graduating alternate row design, together with pair of yellow metal ruby earrings, 17.0gms gross in box
Provenance: private collection Torfaen
Comments: earrings unmarked, good overall, all stones present, viewing recommended £600-900
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1982 CHATEAU LÉOVILLE POYFERRÉ, 2ème Cru Classé SaintJulien, 12 x 75cl bottles, OWC (opened)
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan
Comments: owned by vendors estate three decades plus, laid down within ex-brewery stone-walled storage room, levels min. top shoulder, most base neck, one label with tear £1,000-1,500
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RARE COLLECTION OF SINGLE CASK MALT WHISKY including, two bottles of 31yo 1972 Macduff Speyside, both from cask no. 2360, distilled 23rd March 1972, consecutive bottle nos. 97 and 98, 46% vol., one bottle of 24yo 1980 Inchgower Speyside, cask no. 14147, distilled 10th December 1980, bottle no. 82, 46% vol, one bottle of 24yo 1980 Glenlivet Speyside, cask no. 13742, distilled 4th August 1980, bottle no. 31, 46% vol., one bottle of 23yo 1981 Highland Park Highland, cask no. 6059, distilled 17th September 1981, bottle no. 191, 46% vol., all independently bottled by Direct Wines Ltd for their First Cask range (5)
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan
Comments: excellent levels, capsules intact, labels with some foxing but generally very good £500-600
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1982 CHATEAU LÉOVILLE POYFERRÉ, 2ème Cru Classé SaintJulien, 12 x 75cl bottles, OWC
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan
Comments: owned by vendors estate three decades plus, laid down within ex-brewery stone walled storage room, sealed case, no signs of damage/losses
£1,000-1,500
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SUITE OF SAINT-LOUIS ‘THISTLE GOLD’ PATTERN CRYSTAL, comprising decanter and stopper, 39cms (h) four stemmed thistleshaped glasses, 13cms (h) and a water ewer, 30.5cms (h), all with gilt decoration (6)
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Auctioneer’s Notes: ‘Thistle’ was created at the height of the Art Nouveau movement for the 1908 Nancy exhibition. The thistle is the original inspiration behind this famous pattern and remains to this day one of the most luxurious services of the Maison Saint-Louis
Comments: excellent £500-700
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Fine Art and Antiques – Lots 550-595
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HENRY ENFIELD (1839-1908) monumental oil on canvas - racing yachts in Norwegian Fjord, signed, 98.5 x 209cms
Provenance: private collection Rhondda Cynon Taf
Comments: framed ready to hang £2,000-3,000
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EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888) ink, pencil and watercolour - Passo di Abetone, Italy, annotated and dated ‘7.30. pm, August 28, 1883’, titled verso on gallery label, 9.5 x 17cms
Provenance: with Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., no. 146, English Exhibition, 1973; private collection North Wales
Comments: a little faded, nicely framed and glazed ready to hang £3,000-4,000
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ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS W. BRETLAND (1802-1874) oil on canvas - untitled, portrait of a field master on horseback, unsigned, 70 x 90cms
Provenance: private collection Conwy
Comments: paint shrinkage and minor paint loss lower left and lower right, framed, £300-500
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CHARLES BESTLAND (act. 1783-1837) oil on metalportrait of a gentleman, seated half length wearing dark blue jacket beside table with letters and large silver trophy cup, signed, painted by C. Bestland in a new permanent manner, 16.5 x 13.3cms
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire
Comments: in period frame with minor chips to extremities, perimeter with tiny chips to paint, framed and glazed £400-600
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oil on canvas - untitled, portrait of a gentleman in dark suit and tie, possibly a war veteran, signed, 45 x 35cms
Provenance: private collection Conwy
Auctioneer’s Notes: Richard Jack was Canada’s first official war artist. Born in Sunderland, England in 1866, the British subject studied at the Academie Julien in Paris, France, before he was hired by Canada to become their first war artist in 1916
Comments:
craquelure and paint flaking, framed, ready to hang
£300-500
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JOHN HALL THORPE (1874-1947) woodcut - The Country Bunch, wildflowers in a blue vase, a window reflected in the glaze, signed, 75 x 62cms
Provenance: consigned from Cardiff
Comments: framed and glazed, not examined out the frame, frame amateurly sealed with tape verso £400-500
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‡ LUIGI KASIMIR (Austro-Hungarian 1881-1962) aquatint etching - ‘Brooklyn Bridge’ circa 1927, tug boats in the East River, Brooklyn Bridge in the centre, silhouette of Lower Manhattan in the background, signed in pencil, lower centre, open edition, gallery label verso J. Assenheim & Son, 37 New Street, New York, inscribed in ink ‘Original Proof Etching NY Skyline + Brooklyn Bridge’, (pl.) 29.5 x 43cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan
Comments: foxing to mount, small spots of foxing to the river, lower right, framed, glazed, ready to hang £500-600
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‡ MARCEL DYF (French, 1899-1985) oil on canvas - entitled verso, ‘Dahlias et Cosmos’, signed, dated verso 1967, 53 x 44.5cms
Provenance: private collection Flintshire
Comments: framed with name plaque £3,000-5,000
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ERIC GILL (1882-1940) pencil - sketch for The Midland Hotel mural, Morecambe Bay, 1932, inscribed lower left circle inside 8’.3’’ approx. & outside 9’.4’’, and lower right Wall light brown, colours Red Blue Green Black, band: blue (mostly), 19cms (diam.), together with 2008 Midland Hotel commemorative plate and book by Barry Guise and Pam Brook (3)
Provenance: Phillips Auctioneers, London; Wolseley Fine Arts Ltd.; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Eric Gill Prints & Drawings Exhibition 2003; Velma Reed, thence by descent Auctioneer’s Notes: Gill received a commission from Oliver Hill to provide a carved relief for the new hotel he was designing at Morecambe Bay and to paint a mural on the ceiling of the staircase well. The theme of the mural is Christ the King with two female attendants. The size of the mural is specified lower left and the colour scheme lower right. Drawing published in ‘The Midland Hotel: Morecambe’s White Hope’, 2007, p. 66
Comments: framed and ready to hang £500-700
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ALBERT IRVIN (1922-2015) limited edition (81/90) screenprint - ‘Montcada I’, dated ‘93, signed, dated and titled in pencil, blind stamp Advanced Graphics London, (i) 86 x 70cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: framed, glazed, ready to hang, CCA Galleries label verso £300-500
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ALBERT IRVIN (1922-2015) - limited edition screenprint (27/90), ‘Copperas’, dated ‘91, signed, dated and titled in pencil, blind stamp Advanced Graphics London (i) 88 x 120cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: framed, glazed, ready to hang, CCA Galleries label verso £500-700
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‡ ALBERT IRVIN (1922-2015) limited edition (51/90), screenprint - ‘Montcada II’, dated ‘93, signed, dated and titled in pencil, blind stamp Advanced Graphics London, (i) 86 x 70cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: framed, glazed, ready to hang £300-500
‡ CHRIS ORR RA (b.1943) limited edition (20/25) triptych etching - entitled, ‘Bones’, signed in pencil and dated 1989, 56 x 72cms
Provenance: private collection Powys
Comments, framed and glazed, ready to hang £200-400
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‡ PETER HAYES (b. 1946), resin and rakuBlue Wave, wall plaque, 74 x 74cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: good overall, mounts lacking £400-600
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‡ ROY TURNER DURRANT (1925-1998) mixed media - entitled, ‘Lovers, Swanwall’, signed and dated 18.7.71 in pencil, 34 x 44cms
Provenance: deceased estate Gwynedd
Comments: paper folded twice, framed and glazed £400-600
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‡ SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959) pencil and pink wash - nude female, signed, 33 x 21cms
Provenance: deceased estate Denbighshire
Comments: brown staining to paper £500-700
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‡ DAVID TINDLE RA (b. 1932) oil on board - ‘The Thames at Rotherhithe’, signed, dated ‘59, 59 x 59cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff, presented to the vendor as a retirement gift in 1958, purchased from Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff (vendor supplied information)
Comments: framed, ready to hang, mount foxed, gilt frame with minor chips/loss £600-800
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‡ MARTIN LANYON (b.1954) gouache and collage - entitled verso, ‘Still Life Forming’, signed and dated ‘92, 19.5 x 28cms
Provenance: deceased estate Gwynedd
Comments: framed and glazed, ready to hang £600-800
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‡ PETER JOYCE (b.1964) oil on canvasentitled verso, ‘Action Farmlands’, signed and dated 1992 verso, 102 x 134cms
Provenance: deceased estate Gwynedd
Comments: ready to hang £1,000-1,500
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Provenance: with the Scottish Gallery (Edinburgh), exhibited 2-8 April 2021, private collection North Wales
Comments: float mounted on deckle edge paper, framed, glazed ready to hang £1,500-2,500
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: framed, glazed, ready to hang £2,000-3,000
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: framed, glazed, ready to hang £3,000-4,000
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‡ BARBARA RAE CBE RA RSA RSW (Scottish, b. 1943) mixed media on paperAnasazi Angel, signed, titled and numbers PD3/14 00 verso, gallery label verso, 28 x 38cms
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‡ DIANA ARMFIELD RA RWA MSIA (b. 1920) oil on board‘Nasturtiums and Campanula at Llwynhir’, signed with initial bottom left, Brown & Derby Gallery label verso, 29 x 20cms
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‡ DIANA ARMFIELD RA RWA MSIA (b.1920) oil on board - ‘Flowers in the Victorian Goblet’, signed with initial lower left, The Mall Galleries NEAC exhibition label verso, 29 x 25cms
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‡ KIT WILLIAMS (b. 1946) oil on canvas laid on panel - ‘Madonna of the Snails’, signed with monogram and dated ‘91, 182 x 58cms
Provenance: deceased estate Ynys Mon (Anglesey), with Portal Gallery, London and Bonhams, to accompany a photograph of the model with the finished picture, ‘Preview’ numbered ‘9/25’, by the same hand
Comments: framed £5,000-8,000
Comments: card reads, ‘Oh where Oh where can Gyp and Barney be? We had been on a lovely walk that afternoon with the dogs romping along and enjoying themselves, but when we got near home they were not with us. We had our tea and still they did not come, so Aunt Mary lit the storm lantern and took George and me with her to see if we could find them. She asked some boys playing in Dove Street, if they had seen two little black dogs, “No Missus we haven’t” they said, so sadly we had to return home without them and the year was 1906. Helen Layfield Bradley’.
‡ THEODORE MAJOR (1908-1999), oil on board - Storm at Farm, landscape with farm buildings and figures sheltering from the rain under a tree, 30 x 36cms; together with a copy of ‘Theodore Major: His Life & Works’ by May Gaskell, dedicated to his sister Marion and signed by the artist; Greetings card inscribed ‘Love to Marion from Kathleen & Theo’ with small painting by the artist of crocuses above birthday dedication; Turnpike Gallery 1979 exhibition leaflet
Provenance: gifted to vendor’s aunt from Theo Major’s younger sister, Marion (greetings card confirms); private collection North Wales
Comments: good, ready to hang £4,500-5,500
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‡ HELEN BRADLEY MBE (1900-1979) oil on board - ‘Oh where. Oh where can Gyp and Barney be!’, lady with a lantern and children at play, inscribed on card verso detailing the 1906 occasion when Helen and Aunt Mary returned from a walk without the pet dogs, signed and dated 1972 (see additional image), 28.5 x 24cms Provenance: private collection Cardiff Framed, ready to hang £15,000-20,000
Auctioneer’s Notes:
Born in 1900 as Nellie Layfield in Lees, a small industrial town on the northern fringe of Oldham, Helen Bradley would become one of the nation’s most loved painters, but not until her late sixties. Helen (who changed her name from Nellie by deed poll) was born into a well-established family of local business owners. She attended art school in Oldham where she met fellow student Tom Bradley, who was considered the star pupil. Following a long engagement, the couple would marry in 1926 with two children to follow, Peter born in 1927 and Betty in 1931. Whilst both Helen and Tom painted throughout their lives, and it was accepted between them that if either had a chance of painting professionally Tom was the stronger candidate, neither pursued this career initially. Throughout the interwar years Tom worked in textile manufacturing for a Manchester based firm who specialised in hand printed fabrics (including several Omega patterns by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant) whilst Helen kept the home. Following
the Second World War, Tom’s work led the family to relocate to Middlesex. This afforded Helen the opportunity to visit the National Gallery and British Museum regularly and to attend art school in Harrow. The family returned to the North West in 1952 when Tom took early retirement to allow him to focus on his painting which consisted of portrait and flower commissions. They initially settled in Cheshire before buying a cottage in Cartmel on the edge of the Lake District in 1964. Now in her 60s, Helen painted with a renewed vigour, traveling around the Lakes producing misty landscapes in watercolour, whilst Tom rented a second nearby cottage as a studio for his portrait work. Together the couple joined the local Saddleworth Art Society, through which Helen first met L.S. Lowry. She once expressed to Lowry that she had always struggled to paint figures and he suggested that she should ‘paint someone you know well, go home and paint your mother’. This she did, and the resultant portrait proved to be an important
turning point. Shortly after she began painting scenes from her own childhood that she would become so loved for, depicting a world full of incident viewed with innocence and rendered in exquisite detail. It was not until 1965, at the age of sixty-five that Bradley had her first solo exhibition. Staged by the Saddleworth Art Society to much local acclaim, it led to a request from Cork Street’s Mercury Gallery for six of her works to be included in an exhibition of naïve art the next year. There followed a little over a decade of subsequent highly successful exhibitions in Britain, America and Japan, and the publication of many much-loved books and prints. Bradley enjoyed a broad public profile that few artists ever achieve; she was announced by the media as ‘The Jolly Granny’ and ‘England’s own Grandma Moses’ (although she notes her personal inspirations as Avercamp and Turner). She was appointed an MBE in the 1978 Queen’s Birthday Honours, but sadly died before her investiture
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‡ LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (1887-1976) limited edition (850) off-set lithograph - ‘Peel Park’ (Salford), Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamp, published by Venture Prints 1975, signed in pencil, 41.5 x 78.5cms
Provenance: private collection Powys
Comments: framed and glazed with conservation glass, colours are fresh, ready to hang £3,000-4,000
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‡ LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY
RBA RA (1887-1976) oil on board - three figures in an archway with centre figure in large boots, overcoat and cap, all to an ivory and ochre background, entitled verso ‘Man Looking at Something’, dated 1961, 21 x 18.8cms
Provenance: collection of the Late James Joseph Mundell CBE and thence by descent, label verso for The Tib Lane Gallery (Manchester), the painting was gifted to Mr J Mundell by his aunt the artist José Christopherson (1914-2014) who was a friend of Lowry and a friend of Andras Kalman, Hungarian-British art dealer and former tennis-player who founded Crane Kalman Gallery in London. Kalman were instrumental in widening Lowry’s audience to London collectors and the international market. Mr Mundell was a Manchester industrialist with business in Trafford Park, after his death in 2014, the painting was left to his widow and thence to the vendor after her death.
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‡ LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (1887-1976) offset lithograph printed in colours - ‘Industrial Scene’, published in 1974 by Venture Prints Ltd, Bristol, signed in pencil, Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamp, 34 x 24cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea since purchase in the 1970s
Comments: framed and glazed, a few chips to lower frame £1,500-2,500
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Auctioneer’s Notes: ‘The artist’s acute sense of man’s isolation in the scheme of things is perhaps best illustrated by his passion for the portrayal of lonely and eccentric characters. Derelicts and tramps, cripples, and bearded ladies, these are the very substance of his view of man as essentially an oddity, the Charlie Chaplin of creation. In this respect it is interesting to note that the comedian is one of the artist’s great formative characters. Thus, the big boots, the bowlers and the umbrellas’. (‘The Paintings of L S Lowry Oils & Watercolours’ by Mervyn Levy, published by Book Club Associates, 1979).
Comments: framed and glazed, please note that viewing of this painting can be arranged by appointment at any of our venues including Cardiff and Colwyn Bay in North Wales £50,000-70,000
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GEORGE II ENGLISH DELFT MARRIAGE PLATE, dated 1728, centre painted with initials ‘R+M M’ within laurel wreath, the border with Chinese style diaper and foliate band, 21.5cms diam
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: broken and restored, expected fritting and crazing. reverse with stilt marks £400-600
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ENGLISH DATED DELFTWARE ‘MERRYMAN’ PLATE, probably London, dated 1730, inscribed in the centre ‘To Entertain is (sic) Guest’ beneath the number 3, inside a stylised laurel wreath 19.6cms diam
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Auctioneer’s Notes: Merryman plates satirize the perennial tussle between husband and wife and were made in sets of six, often numbered, each decorated with part of a well-known drinking verse:
1. What is a merryman
2. Let him do what he can 3. To entertain his guests
4. With wine and merry jests 5. But if his wife do frown 6. All merryment goes down
Dated examples range from 1682 to 1752, illustrating the popularity of the sentiment. A set dated 1734 is illustrated by Frank Britton, London Delftware (1987), p 143 and an earlier one of 1717 by Louis Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), p 76
Comments: fritting, glaze imperfection
to letter ‘o’ of ‘To’
£600-1,000
RARE PAIR ROYAL WORCESTER ‘JAPONISME’ MOON FLASKS, dated 1874, in the Aesthetic taste with angular handles and moulded bracket feet, sides decorated with circular panels depicting artisans making and decorating porcelain, reserved on a speckled gilt ground, gilt rims and highlights, printed and moulded marks, incised shape no. 210, date code, 26cms (h) (2)
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: both reglued damaged feet £400-600
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CLARICE CLIFF ‘CAPRI’ BON JOUR COFFEE SET, comprising coffee pot and cover, jug, sugar bowl, six cups and saucers, printed marks to base ‘Bizarre by Clarice Cliff, Wilkinson Ltd’, c.1935, coffee pot 19cms high (15)
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire
Comments: small chip to lip of jug, light wear and crazing overall, minor firing flaws, viewing highly recommended £400-600
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RARE WILLIAM MOORCROFT ‘’DAMSON’ PATTERN
VASE, c.1915, of waisted form, painted to the interior rim and exterior with bunches of trailing indigo damsons amid green-toned leaves, on a variegated green ground, base with ‘W. Moorcroft’ painted signature in green and impressed ‘Moorcoft, Burslem, England’, 26cms (h)
Provenance: private collection Newport
Auctioneer’s Notes: the pattern is likely to have been a trial
Comments: very good, minor glaze crazing, base glaze crazed with minor staining £1,000-2,000
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RARE SCOTTISH THREE PIECE SILVER ARTS & CRAFTS COFFEE SERVICE each element cylindrical, tapered and with naturalistic handles, the coffee-pot having hinged-lid, raised natural turquoise knop and protective leather binding to handle, each with clear conforming hallmarks for lesser known silversmith McDonald and Creswick Ltd, Edinburgh, 1926, 49.9ozs gross
Auctioneer’s Notes: McDonald Creswick were better known as an architectural bronze and metalworking foundry, silver items from the workshop are rare to the market but those silver items that were produced were done so in the Arts & Crafts style and tradition. The company began as a partnership between William McDonald (1887-1932) and the sculptor, Charles d’Orville Pilkington Jackson (1887-1973), in 1911 or 1912. Jackson enlisted at the outset of the First World War and McDonald followed in 1916 but by then he had brought Charles Creswick (1883-1965), a silversmith from Birmingham, into the business. Following the war, the foundry was incorporated as M’Donald and Creswick Limited in April 1920, with McDonald, Creswick and McDonald’s father, John William McDonald, a brewer’s manager in Glasgow, as directors
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd, by descent from the McDonald of McDonald Creswick family £700-1,000
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LIBERTY & CO. TUDRIC PEWTER & ENAMEL MANTEL CLOCK, c. 1905, model no. 0629, designed by Archibald Knox, architectural form set with Art Nouveau foliate enamel panel in red blue and turquoise, the copper dial with Roman numerals and green and blue enamel centre, stamped marks, Lenzkirch stamped movement, 19cms (h)
Provenance: deceased estate North Wales
Auctioneer’s Notes: Cf. Stephen A Martin, Archibald Knox, ARTMEDIA, page 233 and Victor Arwas, Liberty Style, Parco, Japanese exhibition catalogue, page 104 p.39, for illustrations of this design
Comments: case naturally tarnished matt, enamels all good £700-1,200
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MAHOGANY AND GILT BRONZE MOUNTED BRACKET CLOCK, 20th C., 7in. brass dial, silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, applied pierced spandrels, pierced arched allegorical grilles to the side, caryatid angles, grille door, pineapple finials, lions paw bracket feet, unsigned three-train movement striking 8-bells and a coiled gong, Westminster and Eight Bells chimes, strike/silent, regulator and chime selection dials to the arch, 72cms (h)
Provenance: private collection North Wales
Comments: strikes most bells on the quarter, half an hour, but not the gong, needs some adjustment/attention £1,000-1,500
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DETMOLD, EDWARD J. (illustrator) The Fables of Aesop, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. First edition, deluxe issue, 53/750 copies signed and numbered by the artist, 4to, original cream pictorial cloth gilt, 25 tipped-in colour plates, uncut
Provenance: private collection mid Wales
Comments: spine bumped, 3 plates creased, spine browned, back cover stained, slip case distressed £600-700
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THE CHIMAERA PRESS: VORAGINE (JACOBUS A.) In The State of Innocensye, 1988, no. 1 of 100 copies signed by the artist, Ron King, and the puiblisher, Michael Hutchins, unpaged, 27 leaves uncut, illustrated with nine relief prints by Ron King, printed in black and red on mould-made Waterford paper, bound by Robert Paling with black-titled vellum spine over pictorial boards, the covers with designs from relief prints that are not repeated in the text, 4to., with accompanying leaflet, letter and compliment slip from Michael Hutchins
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: no slip case, very slight handling marks on spine
£150-250
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ANGELO TESTA (American 1921-1984) designed furnishing textile, ‘Shingles’, hand screen-print on plain weave cotton, produced by Angelo Testa & Company 1942, length 72” by the full selvedge width of 49”
Provenance: Target Gallery letter/invoice, June 2016, signed Richard Chamberlain, private collection West Wales
Auctioneer’s Notes: ‘This early, important design by Testa dates from his studies at the Chicago Bauhaus. An identical example is held in the collection of the Chicago Institute of Art.’ Richard Chamberlain
Comments: excellent used condition
£150-250
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ANDY WARHOL (American 1928-1987) designed screen-print cotton textile, ‘Happy Bug Day’, orange colourway, produced circa 1955, design originally conceived as a greeting card in 1954, length 35” by full selvedge width of 38”, together with a copy of Textile Design: Artists’ Textiles 1940-1976 (2)
Provenance: Target Gallery letter/invoice, dated 2016, signed Richard Chamberlain, private collection West Wales
Auctioneer’s Notes: ‘A dress made from an example of Happy Day Bug in this orange colour-way is on display in the touring exhibition ‘Artists’ Textiles: Picasso to Warhol. A rare and important textile retailed by the American firm of JCPenny (Pennys’ as it later became to be known)’ Richard Chamberlain
Comments: unused £1,500-2,500
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PABLO PICASSO
(Spanish 1881-1973) designed screen-print furnishing textile, ‘Sketchbook’, produced by Bloomcraft Inc. 1963, length 80” by selvedge to selvedge width of 49”
Provenance: Target Gallery letter/invoice dated June 2016, signed Richard Chamberlain, private collection West Wales
Auctioneer’s Notes: ‘In 1963 the New York based company Bloomcraft collaborated with Picasso to produce a series of dazzling furnishing textiles. ‘Sketchbook’ featured the interior of Pablo Picasso’s studio at La Californie’, his home in the south of France, and was produced on a large scale repeat aimed at the exclusive American decorators market.’ Richard Chamberlain
Comments: unused £250-350
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PABLO PICASSO
(Spanish 1881-1973) designed screen-print furnishing textile, ‘Musical Fawn’ produced by Bloomcraft Inc. 1963, length 37” by the full selvedge to selvedge width of approx, 49”
Provenance: Target Gallery invoice/letter, dated 2016, signed Richard Chamberlain, private collection West Wales
Auctioneer’s Notes: ‘Bloomcraft, the New York based textile design company was founded by Charles Bloom. The company had a history of commissioning artists and illustrators to create designs for them, including Rockwell Kent and Georges Braque, before engaging with Picasso in the early 1960s.’
Richard Chamberlain
Comments: unused, traces of original paper label to top left £200-300
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ALEXANDER CALDER
(American 1898-1976) textile, ‘Calders Acrobats’, 1976, length 16.5” by 24.5”
Provenance: Target Gallery invoice/letter, dated June 2016, signed Richard Chamberlain, private collection West Wales
Auctioneer’s Notes: ‘This rare design was produced in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of New York, who held a retrospective of Calders work in 1976. The artist worked in preparation of the exhibition with the museum, including this textile, but unfortunately died weeks before the opening. This fabric is thus one of Calders last projects.’
Richard Chamberlain
Comments: unused £200-300
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GEORGES BRAQUE
(French 1882-1963) screenprint furnishing textile, ‘Saison Happily Married’, produced by Bloomcraft Inc. circa 1955, length 70” by the full selvedge width approx. 46”
Provenance: Target Gallery invoice/letter, dated June 2016, signed Richard Chamberlain, private collection West Wales
Auctioneer’s Notes: ‘Braque’s textile design was marketed by Bloomcraft as part of their ‘Saison Happily Married’ range. Around the same time, the artist also collaborated with DB Fuller & Co. Inc for a series of designs for fabric.’
Richard Chamberlain
Comments: unused £150-250
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MEDAL GROUP OF THREE to Trooper
J. Almonds (Royal Horse Guards) 1152, Egypt Medal 1882-1889 with Abu Klea and The Nile 1884-85 clasps, Khedive 1884-6 Star, EVII Long Service & Good Conduct Medal (3)
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: naming on Egypt medal partially erased with dints all over, Star with dent to one point, Long Service with small dent to rim and lacks ribbon, other ribbons ragged £600-800
ROYAL WELCH FUSILIERS EPHEMERA & BOER WAR GROUP OF SIX, to Pte. Robert Langford Williams (Royal Welch Fusilers) no. 5891, Queen’s South Africa Medal with Orange Free State, Transvaal, Relief of Ladysmith, Tugela Heights and Cape Colony clasps, King’s South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 & 1902 clasps, 1914 Star with clasp and RWF badge, War Medal, Victory Medal with RWF badge and GV Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, all in glazed wood case/frame; together with Lce Corpl Robert Williams Character Certificate dated 1920, Royal Welsh Fusiliers photograph album containing 27 photographs of soldiers in uniform and in sporting clubs, 1911 map of the Coronation Durba in Delhi, 91 x 75cms (grp)
Provenance: consigned from North Wales
Comments: medals good, album covers worn with loss to spine binding, map discoloured along the creases with tears, inspection advised £400-600
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