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now this is a a truly rare and exciting piece I think it's extremely rare on the road show to see what I consider to be wonderful pieces of sculpture and here is something that the like of which I haven't seen for years and years now tell me where does it come from this has been in my family well as far as forever as far as I know do you know who she is uh we're told it's my great grandmother and you know who the sculpter is uh it's I've read on the back daloo Dalo yes em 1838 to 1902 was one of the founder figures in the sense of modern sculpture when he was young in France he reacted against the formal classical traditionalism of the French sculptural World and he became well known for his Humanity his naturalism in 1870 71 he got into trouble politically he fought or he took part in the commune in Paris which meant he had to flee and he came to England and he was in England between 1871 and 79 which of course is when they could have met cuz I believe the date is what dated 1873 that's perfect while he was in England um he taught at the South kendan School of Art and therefore formed the taste for modern sculpture in Britain so he's a key figure and his way of working of course takes us straight to Roda when you look at this piece you're looking at impressionism in sculpture look at the wonderful freeway it's drawn it's not just the details of the face she's a very pretty woman but look at the way the hair is drawn it's so simple so casual you've got these plats drawn up it's almost like a sort of photograph it's just been taken instantaneously this is a critical piece of sculpture not just in the forming of French taste but more important in the forming of British taste British sculpture was never the same again after the impact of Dalo there is some damage um there are cracks occurring unfortunately across the face um this is the nature of Terra Cotta you know it's quite a a lowf fir material I've never sort of even handled a deloo so to be able to touch it is a wonderful moment and I have to carry it home you have to carry it home um I suppose we have to think about value well I'd like an idea because as you say it's an unusual thing and I know absolutely nothing about that sort of that world well if I told you that not that long ago a deloo bust sold at sou is for over £30,000 um gives you some idea of where we're going um this is not on that League that was a prettier one and it had no damage but I think if we said 20 25,000 we wouldn't be far a drift he's a really major figure and to me I it's is zo you've brought her money into the road show it's great granny that sits up there in the on a high shelf in the you she's your great granny to me she's a great piece of art and I'm so delighted to see it it's really made my year thank you very much thank you my father was an art dealer in the 20s and the 30s um he bought we believe he bought these ad auctions sometime in the 1940s no now the ship plates which I think are the greatest production of that factory there were there were actually 10 so you've got eight of the set here and they were designed by a local artist Maritime artist called Arthur Bradbury in about 1931 and he designed the series to represent the history of shipping in pool so they go back they go from the medieval period up to what was nearly the present day in that time and so they are local history but at the same time they're also to me wonderfully decorative objects they're so expressive of the way the pool process the pool technique worked now I have to ask you looking around a lot of them I'm afraid are damaged yes now how has that happened um they were up the stairs and up the stairs yes our cleaning lady put the Hoover over her shoulder and walked up the stairs knocking them one by one my father at the Bott going no oh no so each one crashed to the ground they did I'm afraid and then she obviously he stopped her before she got to the top so the ones that survived were the ones that were higher up so yes have you got any favorites I I like this one a lot the Harry pay yes also this one the Viper I think the Viper I think is great now that one which also has a view of old Harry rocks in the back which I like very much that was the first man of war to be built for the Navy in pool I like very much the whaler because that again is part of pool's history in the late 18th century pool was a wailing town there is the plate confirming it but my two favorites and the ones in fact I have to confess I've got at home the water witch that's your favorite I think this is a wonderful ship built in 1871 by midus of pool a local ship in the China clay trade so this ship was seen tied up at the key in the 1930s and if we turn it over we find always they have this inscription 1932 and the designer and the painter Margaret holder did most of them Ruth pavy another key artist did some of the others the girls who painted these were looking out the windows and in some cases they could actually see these ships in the haror of a sailing past another story though of course of local relevance is the poly now this is a troller built by the Allens at hamworthy in 1906 a very local ship a ship again very famous um in the harbor a very fast well sailing ship and the great thing about the poly which was owned by the same family the Hayes until 1978 is that she survives she's under restoration now with another owner in brixon so this ship depicted here soon will be sailed again so that completes the story I have this one cuz I have a daughter called Polly and so I had to have of all the ones I had to have this was the one so they're one of the greatest Collectibles I think of pool have you any idea what you what was paid for them not I wouldn't think it lot you no not at that date and you haven't followed the prices of pool particular no no right I mean the good news is that the big ones now sell for about £1,000 each the smaller ones for about £800 700 the bad news is of course the damaged ones are worth very little 50200 they could be restored but it's much too expensive to do so so enjoy them I've never seen a set like this and if you're really fanatical you could look out for the missing too right as far back as I can remember it's hung on the wall of each one of the homes that I've lived in and you adore it oh I love it yes just the vibrancy of the color and I'm a very much an outdoor person so when I it's the type of home instead I'd love to live in myself so it belonged to your parents it belonged to my parents yes my father was an artist a Yorkshire man quite an aid traveler with his paint box and I was given to understand that he actually met Fred Hall Fred Hall died in 1948 I think so oh well then he was well within my father's lifetime so your father probably painted with him maybe maybe that I can't qualify because this is really you know the thing about a picture like this is It's a real artist painting yes M you know it's it's it's a painting that as you say breathes light color and and and it's somebody who's really thought about it cuz the interesting thing about Fred Hall is that as a young man in Newan he was a bit sort of heavy-handed and panti yes but he was a great experimental with paint he loved to push paint around to see what it would do for him right and so unlike a lot of artists who flow in Youth and get pedantic and boring later on Fred Hall was the opposite he was always pushing paint and and he got better and better yes and so this is a later painting by him but it's full of The Joy of Painting yes you call it Springtime wouldn't you the freshness in the greens are the spring greens aren't they yes and I love the way he's captured the sunlight on the Hedge and this side and the the roof and the wall I suppose it's in the spirit of the of the times I think people like space and air today not the claustrophobia of Victorian England they're like exactly the opposite and and so this sort of painting is very much in our spirit today yes and uh and so because it's a popular painting I think would do very well today really well I I would say probably around 8 to 12,000 really oh my for me even though I'm not Cornish the high point of any Journey to the West country is crossing the Royal Albert bridge and here we have it in replica I've always had a passion for Brunell I've always had a passion for this bridge in particular and to me this is a magic moment you know here we have it where did it come from I believe it came from um a gentleman who was uh an apprentice in the dockyard back in the 1850s right uh I was always led to believe so it's a family piece so it's been handed down to the family and you've always had it in your house or in your family house in my in my time yes in nework time yes now this bridge was completed or opened in 1859 it was Brunell last great design and when he was dying and the bridge was just opened in time he was transported across lying on a flat Railway truck and he died very soon after it was a revolutionary bridge for all sorts of reasons emotionally it was the first physical link between Cornwall and England if you like that made it possible to travel all the way to Cornwall by train and so this bridge really represented the boundary with Cornwall once you'd crossed the Tamar you were there It's a Wonderful structure because it's so high you T you climb up above above the houses and then down through salach to get across the river and this was all because the admiralties said the bridge had to be far above the M height at high tide of any ship that went under it he had to invent a new technology to do it um this tubed construction using iron had never been tried before and with all his Works everybody said it'll never work it'll fall down it'll collapse the trains will fall into the river and of course he was right to me he was a a fantastic hero the great builder of ships the Great Britain the Great Eastern designer of mobile hospitals for the Crimean War but above all the engineer of the Great Western Railway and this was one of the Supreme achievements I think of a wonderful man but of course the question is what do we do with this it's got all these numbers up to 52 weeks of the year what do you hang in all these slots do you know well I always thought it was pipes what sort of pipe uh clay pipes so long Church Warden clay pipes yes would fit there but do you smoke a different pipe not you does one smoke a different pipe every week of the year Well I assume that clay pipes broke very quickly when they were smoked or or they they burnt through perhaps they need more of them but would you hang the whole year Supply out I don't know I don't know I don't know is it a scoring system for a game 52 cards you know there's all sorts of possibilities I think it remains a mystery but that to me is not the important thing that's a curiosity which we probably won't sold but it's just such an exciting thing to see because the bridge is here you nothing could be better in Plymouth than to have for me than to have this bridge um it is a remarkable thing beautifully made and a highly desirable object what do you do with it it hangs on the wall in the house and it will pass through my family hopefully was my mother's wish that it never left the West country and so it shouldn't um and if you know any of us chose not to keep it then it was to be given to Cornwall as I think it's absolutely right it should stay here it's part of the history cuz I'm sure it's contemporary with the opening of The Bridge yes and therefore I would see in the right sort of environment £3,000 ask for it just that I think so about the piece itself do you know about it well I've had it for about 20 years it belonged to an aunt of mine um she had it I don't know for how long I suppose again about 20 years it's given to her by a friend and admire how long it had been in his family I don't know just goes back as long as beyond what you can remember absolutely yes the factory Mark bontoft fiance Grand sounding name used by the Leeds fire clay company they started as an architectural firm making glazed bricks and pieces for buildings and they got into the great Victorian craze of making art Pottery particularly vases and models of animals in bright color glazes and then around 18 ' 80s about 1886 1887 they employed a very skillful decorator to do the Anglo Persian style as they adti it and this is the mark of the painter a little monogram here which is an an taken an l and a k and that Mark appears on all the factories pieces in this wonderful style but the sad thing is we don't know who it belongs to the Mark was clearly someone very skilled who understood High Victorian Taste of the time but they we don't know their name at all so remains Anonymous and but because of that it perhaps gets condemned a bit as a copy of the better known William de Morgan pot yes I I've heard of that you the the great designs of the time and Morgan's pieces inspired by the same Islamic Art were the height of fashion in the 1880s um shown in great exhibitions in London and the leads Factory felt we can do just as well yes and I think in many ways they did when you've got the the for behind the design it really works so well the way these snakes coil around and the background with the little plants just growing up inside there it's probably not yet in the same level as William de Morgan who will always be the great leader of the field but even a good old bman piece is certainly going to be I would think four or 5,000 really it's amazing well as far as I know it's always been in the family certainly for a 100 years and um I'm told that this sort of thing was fashionable in the 18 60s and there were a number of family christenings around that time and it could have been a present given to one of my ancestors then right it's a nursery Ry cabinet so it's clearly for a child um it's painted in a very Lively manner with these sort of pseudo medieval scenes which take us as you rightly say straight into the late Victorian period a number of artists in the 19th century made painted furniture there's a whole tradition that starts with pugin goes through Burgess and on and on and on of people who concentrated on the production of really lavish painted furniture now I lovely to say this is one of those it isn't you know it belongs to a descendant of that tradition and when one looks at the images you say you've got Goosey Goosey Gander you've got the black sheep you've got the queen of hearts and you've got something I have no idea and one needs to do research in a book of fairy stories to find what is going on here somebody delivering a letter to a princess there's a stalk now a painted piece like this wonderfully Rich it's part of as I say of a Gothic tradition but the images themselves I think come much much more from a sort of arts and crafts tradition the aesthetic movement and all that love of um decorative amness that was part of the late 19th century presumably you have no idea who might have painted it well somebody suggested rather ingeniously that this was in fact a crane and there of course is water and that was an obscure signature of Walter crane but other people have um scoffed at this idea I don't know what you well it's a lovely idea I me it's a wonderful idea for a Rebus water craan yeah Walter crane the great designer book illustrator children's books particularly of this period did design things like this but I think there's a better candidate um there's a man called Henry Stacy Marx who was a tile painter and decorator independent artist who worked a lot with mintum and he produced a set of tiles and Designs called The Seven Ages of man which were in exactly the same sort of costumes and settings as these there's a slightly curious sort of primitive nature to it which makes me think it's actually by somebody who was in a sense a trained amateur now that's not in any way diminishing the object it might have even been somebody in your family and so while one is not saying it's by Stacy marks it certainly has his style and his stamp all over it and that very much fits in with what you say you know it in your family since the 1880s yes and there certainly was an artist in the family who even if he didn't do this himself might have had friends who could have done it now obviously the lack of a name affects the value do you have any idea of its value um well I been told about 2 and a half thousand but it seemed rather rather little to me well I'm afraid I think it's about right um if we could say definitely Burgess definitely Gilbert Saunders definitely any of the great names you could say 5 10,000 you can climb up as high as you like with no name I think 2 to 3,000 is about absolutely right yes but quite difficult to replace I supp Irreplaceable unless you want to paint another one yeah here has a task for him paint the bed that should go with it foro the winter is passed the rain is over and gone we go on here the flowers appear on the earth the time of the singing birds is come it's wonderful It's a Wonderful image of spring this picture I would have read it the other way around that's very contrary of anyway we've got the message it is a it's a wonderful image of spring such detail here's the Blackbird and he's singing away Springs come this is glorious branch of Apple Blossom isn't it look at the way he's painted it I mean the detail in here is so fantastic this is actually no one looks at it a really great example of what's called prite painting and it's uh mid Victorian painted under the influence of the pelites that's to say the painters who painted with very strong colors very minely in the most wonderful detail and this is a a great example I've been looking at it for some time wondering who the artist is because there's no evidence of a signature on the front but now I'm looking around the back and I I see I see that there is some evidence that actually you haven't been dusting terribly well no no only on the front only on the front anyway ex it came straight down off the wall and there is this wonderful monogram here jsr it's by John Samuel Raven he was a very interesting artist in the middle of the last century obviously influenced by the pites but but um not that well known I mean we only know him from really from his works and they're of tremendous quality there's a picture you've inherited yes I've always remembered it in my parents house but I can't remember it any further back it's got mwood on the back which was a family home going back Generations right it's a wonderful thing to have in the family a wonderful thing to be able to enjoy on the wall now you got it insured IO no you haven't got it insured well I think it would do extremely well actually at auction probably make somewhere between 6 and 8,000 probably ensure it for 9 or 10,000 right and take the cobwebs off as well don't they had don't they had to do you know who all these people are yes this is my great great grandfather and his family uh this was painted about 1820 um they lived in leth just outside Edinburgh it's it's a really amazing picture I think it's so nice very intimate well it is nice and we're very fond of it but the trouers we have no idea who the artist was ah well there I might be able to help you because it was exhibited in the Scottish National Gallery in 1956 at which point they attributed it to um the son of a a very well-known miniaturist yeah uh the son's name being Charles Robertson oh it does seem to fit the date is exactly right well within a year of what you suggested and uh also the idea of it being by a miniaturist explains quite a few things about this picture that uh that that Intrigue you otherwise for example there's a sort of clumsiness in the perspective um and the technical Merit of the picture that makes you think that the artist wasn't used to painting such big pictures there is a school of thought that he painted one head and put it on all the the bodies I think would have had to stay with your family for quite some while before he' finished this picture it would have taken him I feel months it's got that kind of meticulous attention to detail as well that a miniaturist painter might use and one of our experts has identified this toast rack as the Robert and Cadman patent expanding toast rack patented in 1807 such is the detail that he can tell that yeah all these figures are really well arranged you've got this this lovely kind of compositional circle going on of glancing and looks and uh the whole thing finished off by the father who's got a look of slight dismay on his face and I think it's yeah not as much as her look of dismay well I think that's a look of resignation isn't it yes it has to be but anyway he's I think he's actually looking across to uh one of his sons here and he's saying don't you bring that dead duck in here he's dripping blood all over the carpet but what I really like about this picture is the um is the faces of each of the children I think their character is all immediately identifiable on the whole a ravishing picture a real crosssection of life as it must have been but artistically not well I well it doesn't wor me I mean I like it yes Technic teally perhaps it falls down in some ways but it's so Charming it transcends all of that I think and um to put a value on the picture well now that is difficult because of course um the artist doesn't have really a a good track record in the market Place although we don't really mind to it byy it's such a wonderful Slice of Life M that it's got to command £15,000 mhm I think it could even go up to £20,000 and perhaps more good that but I wouldn't replace it you couldn't replace it well I couldn't replace it no it's the most wonderful picture the whip has always been there it where's it been then this much love picture uh I think it was in an old bar a Farm building for about 30 years and then my father he bought it about 20 years ago I think it was a house sale for a few pound it wasn't expensive what did he think about it um he liked it but we didn't know how to get it restored so it just got left I've always assumed it was uh Waterhouse do you know about waterhous I've seen an Antiques Road Show before and there was a painting on there by the same artist and that's why I bought this today right but this is so untypical this picture that first of all we say well it's not really a Waterhouse but it is signed jww down here and if I think about Waterhouse when he started painting he was sort of experimenting he wasn't really very well trained when he started painting he painted little interiors and this sort of thing and I personally think this is by Waterhouse John William waterhous because I think it's the young man coming into being a better painter and before he's really decided the subjects he really wants to do which is his Affinity to the pxs and pretty girls so on balance I'm going to say this is a genuine water house and then we have to say Well since you've looked after it so beauti I'm not to blame for it since she looked at said beautifully what's it worth it's in rotten condition but this can be put right although I think that that will be difficult to clean this are I'm not worried about but the dirt is quite ingrained into that impastor there I think between 5 and 10,000 5 or 6,000 shock I am shocked I am I thought about 500 I'm so worried about the rip well it's pretty nasty that is horrid you know and that's got need's a lot of work doing and so does this but I didn't see why you know finished and all done up somebody might ask 202,000 for or something so it it's worth for me to take it and have it restored I think so yes who is he my father he was born in Australia and uh he came to this country and he took his degree in Scotland as a doctor and then he always loved the sea so he started by being a ship's doctor gracious and that is when he was on the Carpathian and the on the Carpathia yes and uh what was his job on the Carpathia as a doctor the only doctor the only doctor gracious yeah says presented to Dr McGee as a slight token of affection and esteem by these survivors of the Titanic April 15th 1912 yes true they must have felt incredibly warmly towards him I mean he was just the man who who had pulled them back from the brink of death yes I think so what do you think happened that night on the Carpathia well he didn't talk about it too much because it was so awful and he said there was um you know all these Frozen people he had to deal with brought out of the sea and uh it was quite horrific must have been terrifying he said it was terrifying and of course there were lots of troubles which I won't go into about why it was so horrific but he didn't want to talk about that too much either what an amazing story this is because as you know at the moment there's a sort of fever of Titanic yes interest um everybody's been to see the film there have been huge reports in the Press about the whole story of it as to why it happened why certain people got the life PLS and other people didn't up here we have a Humane Society award for him and all his bravery at that time yes he really must have been a most extraordinary and remarkable man yes this is a silver medal yes presented by the humane society which went in conjunction with the certificate of the back but this is something quite different this is the most extraordinary thing another this is presented to Captain officers and crew of RMS Carpathia from the survivors of the Titanic April 15th 1912 that is made out of 14 karat gold yes and there were only 14 of them made oh did you know that I didn't know that no it's an extraordinarily rare thing only the most standing officers received one of these Awards yes it's almost unheard of if you think in the whole world there are 14 of these objects the even more peculiar thing is that one of these was sold recently yes now presumably you would never consider selling any of these objects because they're all family objects they are perhaps things that you might consider insuring yes haven't ensured them yeah I think it's extremely important you do so because in New York in 1997 one of these medals was sold for $50,000 so that equates roughly to £30,000 now heavens and idea can't believe it so I think what we have here looking at your whole collection of objects are probably things that ought to be insured for £50,000 yes thank you yes it's amazing how can you measure one man's Valor indeed thank you very very very much it's been a very moving day for us thank you

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Id: _rvUorXBid4

Length: 28min 24sec (1704 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 06 2023