NORTH BRITISH DAILY MAIL, THURSDAY 19 APRIL 1877
THE SHANDON COLLECTION
Yesterday was the seventh day’s sale of this collection, and there was again a large audience.
The following were the most noticeable morceaux sold:- A globular grey beard jug, with three medallions, containing the arms of England, £15 10s; a Nuremberg tankard, with figures of the Apostles in colours, £18 10s; a benetier, the centre representing the baptism of Christ, the bowl upheld by 3 infant angels, £22; a door-knocker, formed as Jupiter holding a thunderbolt standing between between two lions, £14 3s 6d; another formed as Neptune, a fine venetian bronze, £18; a pair of fina Florentine groups of Silenus with a Nymph and a Satyr, £16 10s; the Centaur Nessus carrying off Dejanira, £25 5s; a statuette of Adonis, seventeenth century, £19; Venus suckling cupid, and Time tearing Cupid’s wings, old Florentine groups, £27 6s; a pair of old Italian candlesticks, £35 5s; the Mercury of G Di Bologna, a copy of the celebrated statue at Florence, 52 gns; a Cinque Centa door knocker, formed as two mermaids and two dolphins, 16 gns; a Venetian door knocker, formed as Neptune with his trident and two seahorses, 17 gns; another, with dolphins, 15 gns; the wrestlers, a fine Florentine group of the last century, after the antique, £45; Hercules, carrying off a child, after the antique, 11 gns; the listening slave, £21; the dancing fawn, £13 10s; a statuette of Antinous, 13 gns.
Decorative furniture: A Chinese rosewod table, elaborately carved, £17 10s; an oval looking glass, in carved gilt frame, 13 gns; a fine Louis XV barometer, £12 10s; the companion frame with a clock, £13 10s; a massive pedestal of ebony and black buhl, £28 9s; four old Venetian hall chairs, walnut wood, inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl, £29; an old oak hall bench, highly carved Flemish work of the 17th century, £162 15s; a pair of old French brackets of chased ormolu and ebony, each with six small stands for china, £150; an old French four-leaved screen, fitted with panels of fine old Gobelins tapestry, 245 gns; a French marqueterie commode, with elliptic front, inlaid with a view of a chateau and garden, £100; a Venetian ebony table, inlaid with buds and foliage, £52 10s; a set of six finely carved chairs, with high backs, covered with old painted embossed leather, £52; a French commode, with shaped front, inlaid with tulipwood, £29; a oair of marqueterie encorque ewers, £62.
The day’s sale of 168 lots realised £2336 7s.
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