The joy of antiques is their ability to transport us to other times and places, indeed a very different world than ours.
A fine salon suite takes us to Belle Epoque France of the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Toulouse-Lautrec haunted the Moulin Rouge and Gustave Eiffel built his famous tower.
We then travel to Russia with a rare Imperial biscuit porcelain figure produced by the Gardner Porcelain Factory: modelled as a peasant mother clutching her child, we can imagine the biting cold of Siberian snows.
A whirlwind tour of central Europe takes in the factories of Herend in Vienna and Zsolnay Pecs in Hungary; after a quick detour to the Ginori workshop in Tuscany we return to Scotland with two excellent examples of textiles, the first a William IV sampler worked by a Richmond Kilpatrick of Edinburgh with the second, a large and fine Paisley shawl of circa 1860 bringing us close to home.
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Lot 875 - AN EARLY ROYAL DOULTON FIGURE OF 'A. HIGHWAYMAN, BEGGAR'S OPERA'
Sold for £170
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 877 - AN EARLY ROYAL DOULTON FIGURE OF 'CAPTAIN MAKEITH, BEGGARS OPERA'
Sold for £130
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 890 - A 19TH CENTURY CAVALRY OFFICER'S MAHOGANY CAMPAIGN CHEST
Sold for £340
Estimated at £300 - £400
Lot 907 - A 19TH CENTURY MAHOGANY SARCOPHAGUS SHAPED TEA CHEST
Sold for £150
Estimated at £100 - £200