THE MANOR HOUSE AT CLIFTON HAMPDEN,HOME OF CHRISTOPHER GIBBS
Catalog Information: 820 lots
Lot 1: A PLASTER FIGURE OF SAINT GEORGE
After Donatello, 19th century 863/4in. (220.4cm.) high NOTES The heroic St George served to represent the Armourer's Guild of Florence, and this celebrated portrait of its patron saint was commissioned about 1416 for the exterior embellishment of the [...more]
Lot 2: A Regency giltwood pier glass
The rectangular plate within a plain moulded frame, the angles with paterae, the later backboard with picture of Anne Boleyn, print by Knapton after Holbein and Houbraken inscribed 'Ann Bullen [sic] Queen of K. Henry VIII' 49 x 211/2in. (124.5 x 54.5 [...more]
Lot 3: A pair of ' Cherwell ' printed velvet curtains
By Morris & Co., late 19th century Woven with thistles and sunflowers, yellow on a blue ground, stamped 'Morris' on selvedge one -- 46in. (117cm.) wide; one -- 52in. (132cm.) wide, 103in. (261.5cm.) drop NOTES The meander pattern of chrysanthemum, ca [...more]
Lot 4: A pair of 'Strawberry Thief' printed cotton curtains
By Morris & Co., late 19th century one -- 35in. (90cm.) wide; one -- 50in. (127cm.) wide, 48in. (122cm.) drop NOTES William Morris's bird designs for cotton, including his 'Bird and Anemone' and 'The Strawberry Thief', date from around 1883 (L. Parry [...more]
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