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Design 1860-1945
Wednesday 15 November 2006 2pm
Bonhams 101 New Bond Street, London, W1S 1SR

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Sunday 12 November 11am to 3pm              
Monday 13 November 9am to 4.30pm        
Tuesday 14 November 9am to 4.30pm
Wednesday 15 November 9am to 12.30pm

Bonham's Design sale on November 15 will include a wide array of collectable items from the Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods (1860-1945)

There are an amazing array of pottery figural studies by the Chelsea potter Charles Vyse including rarities like Punch and Judy, The Circus and Club Row as well as fifteen or so other studies.
Lalique collectors will find both important vases such as `Oranges' `Sauterelles' and `Poissons' along with bowls, hanging lights, perfume bottles and figural studies. Most pieces are from the R.Lalique (pre-1945) period.

The sale also includes furniture, metalwares and a wonderful array of Art Deco bronze and ivory figures by master craftsmen like Demetre Chiparus and Ferdinand Preiss.

Star lots as follows:

Lot 186

Daisy Makeig-Jones for Wedgwood

A Malfrey Pot and Cover, circa 1925
painted in a version of the Willow pattern, the cover painted with the Bridge design

33.5cm high, printed mark to base and painted no Z5360

£12,000-15,000

Lot 339

René Lalique

`Oranges' an Enamelled Vase, design 1926
the large globular vessel in satin-hued glass, moulded in relief with clusters of fruit enclosed by curving leaves heightened with dark brown enamel

29cm high, moulded `R.Lalique'

£12,000-18,000

Marcilhac no 964





Lot 213

Charles Vyse

`Circus' A Rare Pottey Group, 1933
modelled as a female circus rider seated upon a white horse with smiling clown in attendance, on titled wooden base

29.5cm high (loss to right ear of horse and left hand of clown glued in place)

£5,000-6,000

Catalogue: £16.00 (plus postage)

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