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Auction Collection Reflects Shropshire’s Political History

2012-01-30T18:38:00.003Z

The second part of a collection of election jugs, a punch bowl and a mug, reflecting Shropshire’s political history is set to go under the hammer in Shrewsbury next week.

The three Coalport jugs, a Crown Devon mug and a Staffordshire pearlware punch bowl are expected to fetch around £3,500 and have been consigned by a Southern England collector to Halls’ auction of antique furniture, ceramics, clocks and works of art at the Welsh Bridge saleroom on Wednesday, February 8.

The first part of the collection, which sold for £5,000 at Halls’ auction last November, included a Coalport blue and white election jug, dating to 1796, which was made to mark the bitter and closely fought battle to become MP between two branches of the Hill family living at Hawkestone and Attingham.

The jug, which sold for £3,600, declared a majority of 44 for John Hill of Hawkestone when, in fact, his cousin, William Hill of Attingham won.

In this week’s auction, the punch bowl, which dates to around 1805 and is valued at up to £1,000, continues the William Hill theme as it carries the following verse:

“Success to Will’m Hill

With a flowing bowl

We will bring him in with honour

When we do come to poll”

The collection also includes a restored Coalport blue and white porcelain jug, pictured, valued at up to £2,000. The jug is printed with the arms of Shrewsbury Corporation and Hill, tied with a ribbon and sash marked ‘ The Corporation and William Hill’ and has a Latin motto to both sides below two crests.

A Coalport cobalt and gilt 1835 ‘Twelve Apostles’ election jug “In commemoration of the Twelve Conservatives of Shropshire, representatives of a free and intelligent people”, is valued at up to £400.

The other Coalport blue and white porcelain election jug, which is from 1906 and is valued at up to £300, commemorates the Shrewsbury election victory of Sir Clement Lloyd Hill, while a Crown Devon 1959 election mug for members elected for Shropshire is valued at up to £50.

Also featured in the auction is a private collection of Royal Crown Derby paperweights, which is valued at up to £1,000.

For more information about the auction, contact Halls on Tel: 01743 284777 or view the sale catalogue online at www.hallsgb.com. The lots can be viewed on Monday from 9.30am to 8pm, Tuesday from 9.30am to 4.30pm and on the morning of the auction.

Sotheby's New York Old Masters Week Sales Total $73.1 Million

2012-01-30T18:23:00.003Z

Sotheby’s annual Old Masters Week sales in New York concluded last Friday 27th January with a strong cumulative total of $73,052,668. Top 10 sheets are attached for each of the four sales, including Friday’s auctions of Masterworks and Old Master & 19th Century European Art.

The sale of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture totalled $62,081,477, and was highlighted by five remarkable pictures that achieved prices over $4 million – led by Canaletto’s View of the Churches of the Redentore and San Giacomo from the Estate of Lady Forte that sold for $5,682,500 (est. $5/7 million), and Lucas Cranach the Elder’s portrait Lucretia that brought $5,122,500 (est. $4/6 million). New auction records were established for artists including Simone Martini, Fra Bartolommeo and Charles-Antoine Coypel.

On Wednesday, the auction of Old Master Drawings achieved $5,640,813 – the highest result for an auction in this category at Sotheby’s New York since 1998. The sale featured an Italian Renaissance Portrait of a Young Man attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo, which sold to the J. Paul Getty museum in California for $1,398,500 – well above its $400,000 high estimate. Friday’s auctions of Masterworks and Old Master & 19th Century European Art added a combined $5,330,387 to the week’s total.

Click here to read the of sale reports and full round-up of top tens.

UKauctioneers Update

2012-01-30T18:20:00.000Z

I've just read that today has been dubbed 'Happy Monday' by Dr David Homes, a senior psychologist at Manchester Metropolitan University and other field experts. In their view, today is apparently the day when the majority of us have received our first paycheque of the new year and can finally put the financial excesses of Christmas behind us and start looking forward to our summer holidays!

So if you feel like your much anticipated paypacket is burning a hole in your pocket and you fancy a treat, here is a reminder of some of the best auctions coming up across the UK this week, to include fine art, beautiful furniture, jewellery, collectables and as usual, much much more.

Peter Francis

Carmarthen

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