- TWO VINTAGE TEAK YACHT QUARTERBOARDS,
TWO VINTAGE TEAK YACHT QUARTERBOARDS, "TRANQUILITY, GRE...Two Vintage Teak Yacht Quarterboards, "Tranquillity [sic], Greenwich CT"
6.25 in. x 61.75 in. and 5 in. x 48 in.
Condition:
Items may have wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Please contact the gallery for further details prior to bidding. Any condition statement given as a courtesy should not be treated as fact.
- CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (1868-1928)
'LAVANDER,
CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (1868-1928)
'LAVANDER, WALBERSWICK', 1915 pencil and watercolour, inscribed, dated and signed with initials LAVANDER/ WALBERSWICK/ 1915/ CRM/ MMM, later framedsheet size 28.8cm x 22.5cm (frame 46.3cm x 38.7cm)Provenance: Acquired by William Meldrum, after the Memorial Exhibition 1933and by descent to his son, James MeldrumGiven to The Glasgow Art Club by Eva Meldrum, widow of James Meldrum, 1984Note: During a ten-month period in 1914-1915, Charles Rennie Mackintosh created his celebrated series of botanical watercolour studies at Walberswick on the Suffolk coast. Believed to number around 30-40 in total, these works are loved for their meditative, skilful delicacy, and the way they encapsulate the extraordinary marriage of technical and creative vision that Mackintosh possessed. Few beyond Mackintosh are capable of perceiving, much less conveying, both the random beauty and extraordinary symmetry and inherent structural design of the natural world.By 1915 he had married Margaret Mackintosh, and her initials ’MMM’ begin to appear on his drawings, denoting, like a diary entry, that she was present with him when these sketches were created. ‘Lavander, Walberswick’, the most detailed of the sketches offered here for sale, beautifully illustrates his technical prowess and ever-elegant hand. Creating a sense of texture by highlighting just a few upper leaves with the most delicate of washes, our eye then focuses on the accomplished pencil mark tangle of unfurling leaves towards the base of the stem.One contemporary source, an article by author Desmond Chapman-Huston, suggests that Mackintosh produced this proliferation of flower studies for a book commissioned by a German publisher, the outbreak of war preventing its publication. It could also have been a deliberate move towards more commercial subject matter as Mackintosh had just quit his architectural practice in Glasgow. He left the recession-bound city under a cloud; his reputation tarnished by rumours of alcoholism. From what we can infer from this beautiful series of drawings, the tranquillity of the coastal village provided him with an opportunity to re-sharpen the clarity of his artistic vision, with many followers holding the Walberswick sketches among his finest work.This sketch, and the other works by Mackintosh in this sale, belonged to James Meldrum, having come from the collection of his father William Meldrum, Mackintosh’s friend and fellow student at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1880s. James Meldrum notably staged the 1933 Memorial Exhibition of Mackintosh’s work in the MacLellan Galleries on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street, along with his friend William Davidson. After James’ death, his widow Eva gifted the vast body of the William Meldrum Collection to the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. The series of works offered here were gifted to the Glasgow Art Club in the 1980s and now appear on the open market for the first time.
- INA DRISCOLL BRODY LANDSCAPE PAINTINGFramed
INA DRISCOLL BRODY LANDSCAPE PAINTINGFramed oil on canvas painting, "Tranquillity," signed lower right Ina Brody (Ina Driscoll Brody, American, 20th c.), Bridgeport Art League honorable mention 1948, titled verso, sight: approx 19.75"h, 15.75"w, overall: approx 27.75"h, 23.75"w, 5.5lbs
- THOMAS KINKADE. "THE SEA OF TRANQUILLITY,"
THOMAS KINKADE. "THE SEA OF TRANQUILLITY," LITHOGRAPH Lithograph, ed. 95/5850, signed lr, sight size: 23 1/4 x 35 in., framed.
- TAY BAK KOI (SINGAPOREAN 1939-2005)
UNTITLED
TAY BAK KOI (SINGAPOREAN 1939-2005)
UNTITLED ??? ?? ???? ??mixed media on paper, framed, signed 'Bak Koi' lower-middle right(1)59.5cm x 59.5cmProvenance: Private Scottish collection, by repute acquired from Singapore in the early 1980sNote: A second-generation Singaporean artist, Tay Bak Koi is well known for paintings with Southeast Asian themes, this includes the portrayals of fishing villages, kampong scenes and buffalo. Over and beyond the quintessential realistic depiction of Southeast Asian lives, his distinctive style combined a mixture of realism and fantasy to create truly unique works of art. Predominantly using oil paint, watercolour was another favoured medium for Tay. In the example presented here, Tay employs watercolour as the base, oil, gouache or other mediums to detail the landscape, achieving a sense of tranquillity and modernity.
- GREY STONE STELE OF NYOIRIN KANNON
EDO
GREY STONE STELE OF NYOIRIN KANNON
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1708AD ?? ‘?????? ???????????? ???’?? ???????carved with Avalokitesvara seated contemplatively in royal ease posture on a throne, his right foot over left ankle and folded leg half raised, allowing his right elbow to gently rest on his inner right thigh, head tilted to right and sensitively rested on right palm, his eyes closed, face in serene expression, dated to right of the figure on the mandorla 'Fifth year (Year of Tsuchinoe Ne) of H?ei era, Fourth of Shimotsuki Month (Month of Frost, eleventh month in the old calendar)', carved on the opposite with a male devotee's holy name 'Rish? My?tei Shinji' (?), centre of the base further with 'Nakazawa Shi'(1)93cm highProvenance: From the collection of the late Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham (1865-1952), bequeathed by the late Marjorie Debenham, thence by direct descent.With an original letter dated 14 August 1970 from John G. Ayers, the then keeper of the Far Eastern Section in the Victoria and Albert Museum, addressed to the abovementioned 'Miss M C Debenham', the current owner's aunt. The letter identifies the stele is of Japanese origin and dated the stele according to the inscription.Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham, 1stBaronet, was an English businessman who famously owned and chaired the renowned namesake departmental store Debenhams Ltd in 1892-1927.Note: Nyoirin Kannon (Skt: CintamaniChakra Avalokiteshvara), the Bodhisattva of Compassion with the Wish-fulfilling Jewel, is a prominent deity in the Japanese Esoteric Buddhist pantheon. Nyoirin is also a transformed figure of Kannon Bosatsu and one of the Roku Kannon (six Kannon). Mostly depicted seated in Hanka (half-lotus posture) with six arms holding various tributes, including Nyoi hoju, a wish-fulfilling jewel (Skt: Cintamani), and Rin, an abbreviation of Horin, the Dharma wheel (Skt: cakra) representing Buddhist teachings, which combined into Nyoi-Rin, the name of the Kannon. The name carries Kannon's aspirations and vows, which is to fulfil all hopes and through the Buddhist teachings, one would destroy Bonno (earthly desires). Its true wish is to preach at will, living in zanmai (Skt: Samadhi) of Nyoi hoju, removing the troubles of living things in Rokudo (six posthumous worlds) and providing benefits to these worlds. The votive stele of Nyoirin Kannon presented here is carved with two hands. The right hand raised in Shiyui-so, a meditative posture with chin resting upon palm, left palm naturally rested on left leg. Flowingly carved, this example shows a harmonious and meditative tranquillity in Buddhist votive figures.A slightly larger and similar example of a stone stele depicting Nyoirin Kannon, with inscriptions on both sides of the mandorla, dated to Edo Period 1703AD, is in the collection of the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món, Barcelona, accession number 'MEB 152-795'; Further compare with two slightly smaller examples, dated to the Edo Period, in the collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, accession numbers 'TEMP01' and 'TEMP02'; Also compare with a Memorial Stone (Ita-Hi) depicting Nyoirin Kannon Cintamanicakra, dated to 1671AD, in the collection of Horniman Museum and Gardens, London, accession number 'nn19126'
- AGATE 'MONKS' SNUFF BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY,
AGATE 'MONKS' SNUFF BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY ? ????????? ??????????cleverly carved to one side with two monks underneath a gnarled pine tree, the reverse with a poem 'as enchanting as mountains, the tranquillity of mind as if the cloud during high moon', mounted with gold and enamel on the mouth(1)5.5cm highProvenance: Private Scottish collection, bought in London in the 1990s at auction