Antiques & Fine Art - Post Auction Report

On Monday 3rd September Fellows’ sale of Antiques & Fine Art set a new personal best for the auctioneers as over 500 people registered to bid online via
the-saleroom.com.

It kicked-off with several strong results in the glass section; a Rene Lalique ‘Lys’ pattern bowl tripled expectations to sell for £900, and a ‘Coquilles’ dish
fetched £600. Another highlight was a joint lot of two paperweights, one thought to be by the famous French firm of Clichy, the other attributed to the rare
English firm Bacchus. They were won via a telephone bid by an American collector at £1,800.

A varied section of ceramics also yielded a few surprises. A large, but slightly damaged Meissen figure of a flower girl that three other auction houses had suggested only deserved an estimate of £100 - £150, achieved exactly £1,000. From the same source were a number of English delftware plates discovered
in an attic trunk destined for the skip! Amongst them was a rare second quarter 18th century Bristol ‘farmyard’ plate with strutting rooster, which sold for
£1,700. Another of the plates sold for £680 and in all the collection made over £3,500 - not too bad considering they only narrowly avoided being chucked!

The collector’s items section always encompasses an eclectic choice of wares, but the stand-out hammer price on the day was the £4,700 offered for a rare
18th century Anglo-Indian inlaid box, despite showing signs of damage and alteration. A few examples in superior condition had sold previously elsewhere
at up to £2,000, but the condition issues, and the wishes of the vendor to “just sell it”, led Fellows to offer the box with a mid-hundreds estimate. In the
end, strong competition over the telephones resulted in ten times these expectations.

In the clock section a limited edition Jaeger LeCoultre Atmos 561 purchased by a local private collector – the first to be sold by a UK auctioneer – achieved
its top estimate of £8,000. And proving that good longcase clocks and stick barometers can still achieve strong prices, a London five-pillar mahogany
clock sold for £2,300, and a Victorian barometer in need of full restoration climbed to £1,000 to delight the vendor (who had been offered just £500 locally).

A good selection of furniture saw several areas of success. Chinese items continued their recent strong showing, with a carved settle achieving £1,000.
Another strong area was the Arts & Crafts movement, as a table and box settle by Lakeland craftsman Arthur Simpson outstripped estimates to sell for
£1,900 and £2,900 respectively.

The sale was enthusiastically viewed and attended, and many of the prices mentioned demonstrate the strong platform Fellows have built in marketing
these antique sales to their full potential.