Friday 2nd March 2012 - Bedford Auction Centre
Antique Furniture & Collectors' Items
The first Friday of every month sees a specialist auction of Antiques and Collectable's at the Bedford Auction Centre. A range of Antique Furniture, Pictures, Ceramics & Glass, Silver, Metalware, Boxes and Caddies, Militaria and other collector ’s items are offered for sale.
Commencing at 11am
Viewing:
Friday week prior – 5pm to 8pm Saturday prior – 9am to 1pm Thursday prior – 9am to 6pm Morning of sale from 9amThe International Fine Art market comes to Bedford!
There was a truly international atmosphere in the saleroom of W and H Peacock on 3rd February when the auctioneers conducted their most recent monthly sale.
Buyers from around the world bid on-line and by telephone for bronzes from Russia and France, pictures from Sweden and Turkey, furniture manufactured in America, and Delftware from Holland.
Top price was the £8,200 paid for a pre-Revolution Russian equestrian bronze by Vasily Grachev who was born in Moscow in 1831. This lot was the property of a client living in London and was removed from his late mother’s flat in Barnes. It was keenly contested both in the room and on-line before it fell to a Russian buyer living in the USA. Another bronze, this time by the French sculptor, Eugene Delaplanche, (1836-1891) and cast by the famous founders, Barbidienne, realised £1,800.
A colourful and modernistic rendition of the Madonna and Child by the Turkish artist Mustafa Pilevneli was sold to a buyer from the artist’s homeland against bidding in the room from a Bedfordshire based client. Works by this artist have never previously appeared on the market outside his native Turkey, but careful research by the auctioneers ensured that this rarity was properly catalogued and marketed with the result that it realized £2,900. Another rarity was a 19th century walking stick crafted from a whalebone in the 19th century which sold to a London dealer for £700.
A pair of 18th century blue and white Delftware ‘onion’ vases typically decorated in the chinoiserie (or Chinese) manner sold on the telephone to a London buyer for £500, whilst a pair of 19th century mahogany framed armchairs, probably made in the USA and consigned from a lady based in south Bedfordshire lot sold to a London dealer for £1,500.
Other prices confirmed that the market for furniture is strengthening with a late Victorian carved oak dining table achieving £2,000, and an early 19th century mahogany writing table in the manner the great Lancaster based firm of Gillows, selling for £1,800.
Condition Reports
Condition reports and further images of lots are available for this sale via the website
We regret that we are unable to process requests for condition reports received after 1.00pm on the day preceding the sale
Catalogues
Illustrated catalogues are available for all Antique and Specialist sales. (£5.00 by post). These sales can also be viewed on–line 10 days prior to the auction.
Entries
Entries are accepted up to three weeks prior to a Specialist sale or by prior arrangement, please contact the nearest office for further details.
Regular valuation days are held in the saleroom for clients wishing to include items in the sale.
Contact Lindsay Vintiner or David Fletcher on 01234 266366 or lindsay@peacockauction.co.uk for further details.
