Fine Art & Antiques
These quarterly sales are held every March, June, September and December. They typically comprise approx 600 lots to include; antiquarian books, fine English, Continental & Oriental ceramics, period glass, silverware, fine jewellery & watches, paintings and sculpture, Asian works of art, clocks & barometers, and fine furniture & furnishings.
Recent sale highlights include a set of three Meisson porcelain rabbits which sold for £21,000, a Nicole Freres music box for £18,000, a John Pace of Bury St Edmunds rare year-going skeleton clock which sold for £18,000, a Chinese Qianlong period ruyi sceptre selling for £130,000, and an Edward Seago oil on canvas for £37,500.
A pair of Jane Austen and Napoleonic War interest George III silver Egyptian Revival commemorative table candlesticks were consigned for our June 2025 auction, which happily coincided with the 250th anniversary celebrations of the great author's birth. Awarded to her naval officer brother Francis in 1808 for safely escorting an East India Company convoy, while battles raged around them, the candlesticks had incredible historical appeal. They sold for £13,100
Entries close approx 4 weeks prior to auction.
Viewing – The Thursday & Friday prior 10am-7pm and the morning of the sale from 9am
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Writings from the Raj
Our 13th September Fine Art & Antiques auction includes a collection of documents from the British Raj and Indian Princely States.
The Word
Fake news! Climate Change! Conspiracy Theories! Religious discrimination! Suspicion of the state! Current social and mainstream media has nothing on 17th century printed sermons, which could spark rebellions and lose heads.
Jane Austen's brother, the Napoleonic Wars and the East India Company
This pair of silver candlesticks were presented to Admiral Francis William Austen for escorting a convoy from St Helena in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars
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