High Road Auctions celebrates successful Fine Art & Selected Antiques Sale

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Friday, 3rd June 2011

Chiswick’s High Road Auctions celebrates a successful Fine Art & Selected Antiques sale
Friday 3rd June 2011

High Road Auctions celebrated the results of its Antiques, Interiors and Fine Art Sale held on 31st May at its Chiswick showroom.

Amongst the exciting items on sale was an Augustus John RA etching of an ‘Old Man’ (dated 1902) which sold to a private buyer for £1,300, more than 5 times the estimate of £250.  This is believed to be a world record auction price for this particular etching.

The tension was quickly matched when five telephone bidders and three room bidders competed for three oils on canvas by London-born artist, Professor Ken Howard RA, which together realised a hammer price of £8,000.

The first lot, ‘St Marks, Venice’, was eventually sold to a phone bidder for £5,200, more than double the estimate of £2,000. ‘Sailing Boats in the Harbour’ sold for £1,200 – four times the estimate, and ‘A Beach Scene with Figures and Bathers’ sold for £1,600, over six times the estimate of £250.

The pieces were among over 60 works of art on sale. Other works of note which attracted bidders included a 19th century Central European icon of Madonna and child in the Byzantine style, hammer price £800; plus two rare pieces from the private collection of Sir Peter Blake – ‘Fat Boy’ from the ‘Slide Show’ portfolio 1970 and a very limited edition print of HM Queen Elizabeth, signed twice, which sold for £800 and £2,000 respectively.

Other collectors’ items in the sale that proved popular with bidders in the room, as well as phone and internet bidders included:

•    Lot 22 A superb oriental ivory card case. Price Realised: £650 (Estimate: £100 - £150)

•    Lot 35A  A fine 19th century mahogany table top medicine cabinet. Price Realised: £720 (Estimate: £380 - £450)

•    Lot 42 A 18ct gold and diamond ladies Choppard watch. Price Realised: £4,300 Estimate: £1,800 - £2,800

•    Lot 68 A pair of Bohemian overlaid ruby glass vases decorated with floral groups with birds enriched with gilt. Price Realised: £1,300 (Estimate: £200 - £300)

•    Lot 117 A pair of Carlton ware water jugs decorated with orange lustre ground having a central tree design and bunny rabbits on either side. Price Realised: £290 (Estimate: £80 - £120)

•    Lot 245A An 18th century hallmarked silver mounted cut glass cruets on a gilt enriched papier mache stand  Price Realised: £1,400 (Estimate: £180 - £220)

•    Lot 262 An important Regency convex mirror of large proportions having an outstretched eagle on plinth over circular mirror having out swept candlesticks. Price Realised: £3,000 (Estimate: £750 - £1,250)

•    Lot 268 An Arts and Crafts Glasgow school copper and enamel framed overmantle mirror. Price Realised: £580 (Estimate: £250 - £350)

Robert McCarthy, Director, comments: “I’m very pleased with the results from the sale. Viewing was busy and we’d had an exceptional number of enquiries on lots in the run-up to Tuesday night. Turnout on the evening was high, especially from Chiswick-based buyers. It’s pleasing to see High Road Auctions firmly on the map as a destination for both private buyers and dealers to buy and sell exceptional quality works of Fine Art and antiques alike.”

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Lot 14 - a 19th century Central European icon of Madonna and child in the Byzantine style. Sold for £800.	Lot 22 - A superb oriental ivory card case. Sold for £650.	Lot 35A - A fine 19th century mahogany table top medicine cabinet. Sold for £720.	Lot 68 - A pair of Bohemian overlaid ruby glass vases decorated with floral groups with birds enriched with gilt. Sold for £1,300.	Lot 117 - A pair of Carlton ware water jugs decorated with orange lustre ground having a central tree design and bunny rabbits on either side. Sold for £290.
Lot 123 - Augustus John RA etching of an ‘Old Man’ (dated 1902). Sold for £1,300. This is believed to be a world record auction price for this particular etching.	Lot 125 - A rare piece from the private collection of Sir Peter Blake. ‘Fat Boy’ from the ‘Slide Show’ portfolio 1970. Sold for £800.	Lot 126 - A very limited edition print of HM Queen Elizabeth, also from the private collection of Sir Peter Blake. Sold for £2,000.	Lot 169 - Ken Howard RA, OBE, b1932. Oil on canvas ‘St Marks, Venice’. Sold for £5,200.	Lot 170 - Ken Howard RA, OBE, b1932. Oil on board. ‘Sailing Boats in the Harbour’. Sold for £1,200.
Lot 171 - Ken Howard RA, OBE, b1932. Oil on canvas. ‘A Beach Scene with Figures and Bathers’. Sold for £1,600,	Lot 245A - An 18th century hallmarked silver mounted cut glass cruets on a gilt enriched papier mache stand.  Sold for £1,400.	Lot 262 - An important Regency convex mirror of large proportions having an outstretched eagle on plinth over circular mirror having out swept candlesticks. Sold for £3,000.	Lot 268 - An Arts and Crafts Glasgow school copper and enamel framed overmantle mirror. Sold for £580.