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Lord Weidenfeld

The Collection of The late Lord Weidenfeld GBE: A Life of Ideals and Ideas, Christie’s, 8 King Street, St James’s, London SW1, 18th May 2017

Lot 509
Bernardo Cavallino (Naples 1616–?1656)
Saint Dorothy
oil on canvas
27.7/8 x 22.7/8 in. (72 x 58 cm.)
Estimate: £150,000-200,000
© Christie’s Images Limited 2017

This is a very rare and final chance to see the private world of the publisher and philanthropist George Weidenfeld (1919-2016). He was created Baron Weidenfeld of Chelsea in 1976. He had co-founded the famous publishing firm Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1948. It was after the War too that he started collecting and this auction reveals his many interests – Old Master paintings, 20th century works on paper, furniture, sculpture and the decorative arts. His collection of books is left to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.

The dining room of Lord Weidenfeld’s Bennison decorated Chelsea apartment
© Christie’s Images Limited 2017

The setting for this very personal collection was Lord Weidenfeld’s Chelsea Embankment apartment which had been wonderfully decorated for him by the famous antique dealer and decorator Geoffrey Bennison and which remained virtually unchanged for over forty years!

Lot 569
A REPOUSSÉ PARCEL-GILT COPPER BUST OF POPE URBAN VIII
WORKSHOP OF GIAN LORENZO BERNINI, ROME, MID-17TH CENTURY
30 in. high, 24 in. wide, the bust and socle
Estimate: £30,000-50,000
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Lot 577
A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID INDIAN ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE
CIRCA 1810-20, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS
31.1/4 in. (79 cm.) high; 76.1/2 in. (194.5 cm.) wide; 48.1/2 in. (123.5 cm.) deep
Estimate: £40,000-60,000
© Christie’s Images Limited 2017

 

Lot 582
A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE FITTED AS A TABLE LAMP
19TH CENTURY
The porcelain, 17.1/4 in. (44 cm.) high
Estimate: £2,000-4,000
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A backward glance to the 60s

Pure Evil on the King’s Road, Proud Chelsea, 161 King’s Road,  London SW3, until 7th August 2016 

Michael Caine © Pure Evil

Michael Caine
© Pure Evil

One can quite understand why street artist Pure Evil (Charles Uzzell-Edwards) has such a following.  His works, inspired by 60s icons and with a Warhol-esque twist and his famous tear-mark emblem explore the darker side of people, with an added dash of humour.

Michael Cox’s Nightmare (Jean Shrimpton) © Pure Evil

Michael Cox’s Nightmare (Jean Shrimpton)
© Pure Evil

It is fitting that as a descendant of Sir Thomas More, who lived nearby, that Pure Evil should have this show on London’s famous King’s Road.

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Chelsea Porcelain

 Sir Hans Sloane’s Plants On Chelsea Porcelain – A Loan Exhibition, Stockspring Antiques, 114 Kensington Church St, London W8, 2nd – 16th June 2015

Corallodendron: A Chelsea plate with a wavy brown-edged rim, painted with a Corallodendron flower, leaves, floret, seed pod and seeds, and two butterflies. c. 1753-56 Mark: red anchor over 34, Diam: 24.5 cm Private Collection

Corallodendron:
A Chelsea plate with a wavy brown-edged rim, painted with a Corallodendron flower, leaves, floret, seed pod and seeds, and two butterflies.
c. 1753-56
Mark: red anchor over 34, Diam: 24.5 cm
Private Collection

This exhibition celebrates the physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane who was a great patron of the Chelsea Physic Garden. The garden was a great centre of botanical research at a time when ships returning to London from Asia, Africa and the New World were bringing many unknown plants back with them. Sloane, himself, collected plants and animals and studied botany.

Trew C. J., Plantae Selectae, dec. I, Tab. VIII;

Trew C. J., Plantae Selectae, dec. I, Tab. VIII;

The chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 was Philip Miller who in 1731 published the Gardener’s Dictionary and later Figures of Plants, which showed the new plants in illustrations by Georg Dionysius Ehret. Ehret was the botanical artist of the time and had also provided illustrations for other books, including Plantae Selectae by Trew and Phytanthoza Iconographia by Weinmann.

Dodecatheon meadia: A plate with a wavy brown-edged rim, painted with a Dodecatheon Meadia, two seed heads, an immature seed head and three flying insects. c. 1755-57 Mark: red anchor, Diam: 21.6 cm Private Collection

Dodecatheon meadia:
A plate with a wavy brown-edged rim, painted with a Dodecatheon Meadia, two seed heads, an immature seed head and three flying insects.
c. 1755-57
Mark: red anchor, Diam: 21.6 cm
Private Collection

These and other published works were the source for the wonderful botanical decoration found on Chelsea porcelain in the 1750s and which are known as Sir Hans Sloane plants. This special exhibition, thanks to the loans from museums and private collections, brings together over seventy pieces of Chelsea porcelain which are shown alongside images of their source engravings.

 

Trew C. J., Plantae Selectae, dec. I, Tab. XII;

Trew C. J., Plantae Selectae, dec. I, Tab. XII;

The exhibition is accompanied by a highly detailed hardback catalogue (£30 + postage) by Sally Kevill-Davies and is the fruit of her research into identifying the plants found on Chelsea porcelain. Thanks are due to the Cadogan Estate for their sponsorship of it.

 

Opening Times:

Weekdays: 10 -5.30pm, Saturdays: 10 – 4pm. Sundays: Closed.

 

 

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