A Chinese bowl, estimate at a few hundred pounds, sold for just under £10,000, including buyers premium, when it went under the Charterhouse hammer in Sherborne on Friday 12th September.
“The bowl was consigned for auction from a client living in the middle of Exmoor who took advantage of the free home visit service we offer clients wishing to sell their antiques and chattels.” Commented Richard Bromell. “The client attached no particular value to the bowl, and believed it may have been purchased a number of years ago by a relative who was an Admiral.”
Bidding for the Chinese bowl which is decorated panels painted figures and landscapes, started at £2,000 and then slowed up at £4,000 when a bank of telephone bidders from London across to Hong Kong joined in with the hammer falling down to a specialist London dealer.
Elsewhere in the auction, a Battle of Britain medal group sold for £2,100, a Waterloo and General Service medal pair sold for £3,200, an impressive carved and stained oak four poster bed £3,000, a George III bracket clock £1,800, a silver baseball trophy relating to the 1936 Olympics £700, and a George III mahogany chest of drawers £1,000 bucking the current trend towards “brown furniture.”
Charterhouse is now accepting entries for their autumn programme of specialist auctions including decorative arts on Thursday 16th & sporting items with pictures on Friday 17th October, silver and jewellery Friday 14th November and trains, other models & railwayana on Thursday 11th December.
For further information, or to take advantage of their free home visit service, contact Richard Bromell, Partner, at Charterhouse, The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne 01935 812277. www.charterhouse-auctions.co.uk