Antiques Roadshow UK Series 18 Episode 14 Penarth, South Glamorgan

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] where the Vale of Glamorgan comes down to meet Cardiff Bay you'll find the small coastal town of panov with the sea on one side and the South Wales Valleys on the other penneth was ideally placed to become a major port indeed much of its history it owes to the sea to have a well-known landmark is one thing to have a well known CE mark is another and that's the distinction of st. Augustine's Church in panov it's marked on admiralty charts and has been recognized by generations of sailors as a welcome sign that they were coming home Penarth was a busy port with Welsh coal shipped from these docks to many parts of the world when the mines closed the docks laid derelict for years but in the 1980s were redeveloped into a marina a sign of the prosperity which returned to the town with the growth of the newly sure industries just over there is the island of flat home which earned its place in history in 1897 when a 21-year old Italian called Giuliano Marconi made the first ever radio transmission across water from the mainland to the island the fact that he did it at all is really quite remarkable not least because when he arrived in England the custom smashed his radio equipment thinking he was an Italian spy and up to no good panache today is one of South Wales most popular resorts the Victorian pier being given a new lease of life with some major restoration when the paddle steamer Waverly comes across the bay on its regular summer trips it seems almost as if nothing much has changed since its 19th century hating so let's now join the people of panache with the Antiques Roadshow experts know this is a truly remarkable service because when you look there you would be forgiven for us supposing it was made of very fine porcelain and from one of the Grand factories and in fact as you know it's made of creamer pottery and it comes from a sort of second rank and we could see this from the way its mark it comes from Davenport the shapes are the classic ones of about 1820 1825 find them important in the best cream mass what is unusual in a premier service is to find a solid brand color and it's harder to apply it to pottery than it is to porcelain and that is why in fact it has a rather tricky effect I think it hasn't sunk into the ground well as it were done enforcement and so you've got most of the service yesterday you were a sense this is a center dish yes and you've got three of those reoccurs that would have been for that three of those there would have been four and they would have had baskets on them they are stands for Bosco's and there are no other shaped dishes I don't think the three source to means covers the stands like this alone are worth 1,500 pounds good gracious and they are the most expensive was everybody likes to happen that is probably worth 250 pounds if you put these in at a hundred pounds each you're you're getting up to here's four three thousand three and a half to four thousand pounds is what was over seems to be well good gracious me these belonged to both of you then well they're lovely things actually but of course one should say I think that if there were modern ivories the situation would be quite different wouldn't it are you sorted school about protection of elephants and ivory and so forth what do they say my day when I'm at school and we would never talk this sort of thing well you shouldn't take one ivory because it's unfair on the elephants they are endangered species they shouldn't just be killed for some little ornament to put on you mantelpiece or dressing tables hmm absolutely course elephants are protected in the East in their dirt the days when that was carved of course that wasn't the case because that was carved about a hundred years ago so there are no protection laws then well this this is a much of the nice to the two so we'll put that to one side with it and this chap he's a woodcutter isn't he he's actually having a tea break he's having a sake break isn't quick than having a swig of sake his cups missing actually but this thing here is a God Misaki would Iguala rice wine would have been kept in the guard but here it is resting on this on his on his the sticks these Jesus cut which are brilliantly done on the every single branch or trimmed certainly deserves a soccer break doesn't yeah and he would turn it upside down and we have a course that little red lacquer seal which indicates that had probably made in a Tokyo area and it was a very very fine quality it certainly worth several hundreds of powers and I think something of the order of it not quite that that was MIDI sort of sort of 6960 a country boundary would you think of that wow that's fighting yeah I've worked for a company which manufactured miners lamp stand they commissioned this drawing to use as a calendar 1938 of it I think and when the company went defunct the buildings were being pulled down and so forth the secretary said you know we'd like to have that as a keepsake there can be very few artists whose names have gone into the common usage in the english language and william heath robinson i think must be the leading name of that type he was born in 1872 and trained as a perfectly conventional artist and in fact as a young man illustrated numerous children's books and so on and really he came to prominence in the first producing these very eccentric cartoons lampooning all the devices made by the ministries and so on and we have this wonderful mad scene of a man picking out lumps of coal with his first miners safety lamp in 1066 he died at towards the end of the Second World War so this is quite a late work I think it's a it is a particularly nice subject it's also enjoy a nice conditional as you know the history behind us and everything and I I would imagine that at auction it would make between eight and twelve hundred pounds and certainly ought to insure it for perhaps as much as fifteen hundred handsome English furniture just pre Regency and this I think is the sweet yeah you use it no not really no no I think I said lovely I did the idea of cutting this beautiful piece of mahogany originally by the maker to have that little writing yeah compartment I think it's so sweet and of course is a typical of one maker and only one maker and I'm sure you've seen you know it's by you know here we are the gillo family yes that stamp there is over a period of years I mean they later became wearing a gill oh yes 35 this century yeah the firm was started by Robert gallo and I think the 1720s yeah this stamp with just with just gillo is around the pair of this table from about 1790 to 18 and at one stage had gillo lancaster yeah and then yellows with yes I've read that her name is actually Gil oh yeah but even without that stamp just looking at this it's a typical yellow design is a soul family piece well it has been in my family for a long time but not my immediate family do you have any idea what it's worth no idea something that I know is I like it what would you guess it's worth today gosh I have no idea no idea at all no well it is certainly expected to make between three and three and a half thousand pounds at auction I didn't make it means worth as much as that Oh glass they came into service I think in 1831 and didn't go out of service until early this century so with it within that period and knew quite often find in the accounts of various boroughs certainly one of the Birmingham Borough Police there was an instruction that mounted constables carrying leash not hack at the hedges with them because it must have a Hateley the blade to be reserved yeah and that they've always been eminently saleable as gifts for retiring police officers without the scabbard between 75 100 pounds with the scabbard and another 75 turtle now une is obviously a very important pottery in this area isn't it I mean une became a pottery that flourish strictly in a late Victorian period when it suddenly became associated with both the local tradition and the making of art wares and this has become an art pot by the time was made just probably in the 1880s this is a very splendid piece as a in a very traditional form all this irregularity of color is what you expect there is some damage on its angles would be not now of course the market for une is exactly here you know if I took this to London it wouldn't affect nearly so much but what it wants to do is to go into a specialist Welsh pottery sale here and a local collector might pay oh I think 150 pounds something like that possibly even more obviously the damage affects it if this was perfect it would probably be 300 pounds most people looking at a dish like this would think oh that's a collection plate nice for church in fact what this is is a rose water dish now rose water came about in medieval times for the very simple reason that nobody washed you will have heard that Queen Elizabeth the first used to have a bath twice a year whether she needed it or not so that was a good start but the story of this dish goes back way before Queen Elizabeth where people would go to a nobles house for a grand dinner they would come in from outside dressed in all their riding clothes so you would be greeted by a man standing in the doorway with a big dish full of wonderfully scented water full of rose water or lavender water and you would wash your beastly grubby dirty old hands in the water and you dry yourself on a towel hanging over his shoulder then best bit happened somebody got hold of a bottle full of nice smelly water rose water or lavender water in because you smelt so ghastly that if they had lots of people sitting down in one room together nobody could breathe but I think this dish dates back to the 17th century yes and how about I dip you in well that's very difficult but for our collectors for old brass and I think whether they are worth quite a lot of money I can see it making somewhere around about some six hundred pounds eight hundred pounds at auction something like that your lower lip is trembling this page looks really fresh and new absolutely clean but how long have you had it about 25 years dude only about it before that no I know nothing about it except that it's I was told it was very old it was given to me by my mother's best friend and she'd had it given to her by an old lady well and it is a very good example of Bristol Delft [Music] it was made probably in about 1760 between 1750 and 1760 and Bristol Bristol the easy to recognize because they use this funny seiji green colour yeah and also they appeared to views a sort of felt pain yes funny felt pen effect doesn't it the way these strokes have like they made bill might delve and they make color Delft and the color Delft is very sought-after it's a good size because you'll get plate size you get this is a really generous size I haven't got my tip as you have not forgetting on for 13 inches I think you should insure it for 800 pounds cause Eric Gill has great relevance as far as the BBC is concerned he was the sculptor who did all there's wonderful sculpting he's outside the BBC broadcasting house you probably know that yes yes he caused great trouble because he refused to wear refused to wear trousers he used to think it was an abomination to wear trousers and in central London of course he had to be shrouded behind the scaffolding while he erected these wonderful sculptures anyway that's by the way you have got a wonderful collection of letters from Eric Gill and a few of his engravings here and obviously something to do with the gup-e gallery who is mentioned time and time again missus Marchant at the Google gallery the Google gallery was moved from Paris by my grandfather the husband of mrs. Marchant he died early in the the century but my grandmother mr. Norton took over the running of the gallery yes and had all these correspondence with Eric Gill on really main mundane business matters many of them this mrs. Marchant there's a biography out recently by a Fiona McCarthy didn't he have an affair with your grandmother it's interesting to mention that we bought this book for my mother who has taken a great interest in the affairs of the gallery since he almost the only living relative and we thought she'd enjoy this book doing contact yes very girl when we looked up the references to the family name we discovered that Eric Gillard claimed to have had a fairly closely with my grandmother which was a family surprise yeah I will yes well anybody goes round without trousers I mean well what could you say anyway I didn't give a warble near literally honestly these little engravings here these are absolutely wonderful cm from eg so these are actually two your grandmother here certainly that one is anyway it's such a pity about this one here this is signed by Eric Gill here with monogram but it's had a rather nasty thing put across it like that do you have any other we've not earring girl but these are collection of various letters from John Nash another was again associated very much indeed Google well John Nash of course I suppose he's most famous at least I know him because he's a very long letters too much less like the gill letters love John at the bottom i he didn't have an affair with her he was he was great warned artists he was one of the official war artists again but this is this is absolutely fascinating sort of a whole history of an art gallery in sort of close that is and bits and pieces these lovely engravings here which are actually signed by Gill would be worth in the region of a hundred this one here because it's presentation copy would be worth about a hundred and four 150 this one sadly is an example I think one could possibly get the stain out but it would still take away from that that wonderful engraving I'm afraid would ne probably be worth about 40 or 50 pounds an ordinary Eric Gill letter I suppose they don't fetch an awful lot of money but I mean that forty pounds but there again you do have rather a lot of them you flood the market quite frankly with 30 or 40 letters yeah similarly with John Nash he's not going to be expensive as Eric Gill but he's still going to be worth about 28 30 pounds each it's a wonderful nice to hear it because I you can dip back in all this sort of material and see what life was like in your in the gallery of your grandmother well I know nothing about the vows except that is in the family for many years and we've always admired it and had great pleasure from it and now we want to know the value of it well the thing that attracts me about this is it belongs to peculiar family of colors Chinese colors a lot of the colors that we see here from the fam Yvette palette especially this green here and of course we have a classic family rose peony there and because it's on a black background it gets the rather fancy name Femi Noir the black family of anomalies family know I was very very popular in China and in Europe at the end of 19th century and this is how old this particular piece is it's got these lovely Buddhistic Lions gambling through an undergrowth of what appeared to be snow balls flowers in fact and peonies have another but the stick line bottom there and then we have this this is not original to the piece did you have this down yourself no no it's on there originally so we know nothing wrong about it but originally a some stage someone has brokered this is usually the fate of lids they get broken some stage in their lifetimes and unfortunately in breaking the lid they also appear to have broken rather badly the rim but judging by the color of the repair up there I had a thought that was done quite a long time ago it was made it has quite a severe effects on the value of the piece yes I might just point out that someone whose rather cleverly taken what was a stand from another bars that is actually a stand and they've discovered that the rim fits perfectly on there so they've done that to it and I suspect that that was possibly the lid from the missing bars that we don't know what it looks like it's a European piece of pseudo ormolu which just of neatly fits in there and it keeps the jar as a potpourri you could pick up something like this or maybe somewhere in the region of five or six hundred pounds dukey fragrant rose petals in oh i don't but i will know you will the growth is russian it has been in my family for a long time i had it valued in poland and i was thought that it may be a Faberge brooch but they were not sure about that what about the other pieces a set of jewelry I was given by my husband for our third wedding anniversary and if this goes in a shop in Warwick right that's the difference actually I mean immediately one looks at a piece are that it stands out as Russian these most certainly not Russian these are English the nice thing about them is that you've got very pretty opals put together there and they set off very well with the rubies and the diamonds in the center very pretty little sweet and a nice design with the drop earrings a set like that today I would have thought something a potion a couple of thousand pounds but the piece that I really like is the Russian piece I mean when you look at it it's so simple there's nothing there as time but it's freaks of quality we've got this lovely beaded edge a nice little cabochons sapphire in the center beautiful enameling and on that pin there's a little K and a crown and that's the abbreviated version of Faberge smart he only put that on these very small pieces and the other bigger pieces were signed in fall and again when I looked at the end of the pin here you can see the Russian gold stand at the 56th and a flush of gold so it's a lovely piece and I do envy you that I mean although I like the opals this to me is a collector's piece and today I suppose if that came up you'd certainly get something read about a thousand possible 15 on the balance right it's a lovely piece of it thank you very much well Clive we asked you to bring along one of your favorite things and you brought this which are very interesting but what on earth is it well this is a Bambara headpiece which is from the Bambara tribe in West Africa Nigeria and is used by the young farmers remember our tribe at their various ceremonies twice a year and where did you find it on some safari to Africa not Africa but San Francisco I was in a shop and I saw it and I had to buy it my wife said I couldn't possibly bring it home I said yes I could and we had it on board with us and it actually although doesn't look particularly fragile is because I thought when I first picked it up there was going to be a very heavy piece in fact it almost floats off the floor it does well you see they've got to wear it on their head they wear it with sort of raffia a raffia headdress at the bottom here with loads of dreadlocks around and they dance around pretending to be this spirit which this represents Jawara the spirit of the witness and the idea of is that the spirit of the wind helps them with their agriculture in the early days twice a year when they sow their seeds and when they reap they go around pretending to be the spirits there are very spiritual people they they believe that they're by doing this they can actually activate the spirits to help their agricultural lives so it's all mixed up with African mythology and superstition and absolutely that's absolutely right and is it particular well I think it is old actually African art is derivative and people always say oh yes it's bound but in fact in this case if you look at the di here there's a little bit of trade cloth sharing a little red piece of trade coffee well trade cost was used in the 19th century Europeans trading with the Africans bright red cloth and this was what they used on that you don't see it in any of the later ones so that's how I know that it is of a good age [Music] so how does a a pot from the frozen north end up in South Wales I don't know but my mother-in-law so it's an heirloom has been passed down the family yeah well Pilkington's I mean the started officer as a tile making concern and they introduced a man from Wedgwood in the 1890s a man called William Burton it was a chemist and something of a writer as well on on ceramic history and he was the new driving force at Pilkington and by the way Pilkington's pottery nothing to do with Pilkington squamous the number of times that people talk about the connection between the st. Helens sperm as far as I'm aware there's no great connection but either way William Burt arrived and he transformed the products that they were making there and started the art pottery employed a whole list of very very talented artists but I have to say of all the artists one of my firm favorites is Richard Joyce and I think it's fair to say this is almost without doubt the work of Richard Joyce decorated in lustre technique I mean Pilkington's made a whole range of wares but it's their luster wares which collectors go for but let's just look at the fish some of them are quite ferocious looking aren't they they all look as though well even the little ones looked looks as though they could possibly be piranha don't they I mean I think this fellow down here is particularly vicious looking this one down here and what I like is the way that they've actually picked out in this blood-red color the decoration so that we can date the piece from the mark which is just under the glaze I would suspect this dates from around about 1920 just after the first world war and they're in a small panel is the monogram of Richard Joyce an unsung hero really of ceramic decoration and a master of the technique of luster decorating I suppose when it comes to money I would certainly envisage this at auction attracting a beard in the region of a thousand pounds well after all the heavy intellectual content of the read sure I thought we'd have a bit of light relief perennially popular puppies and what do you think of it well not very much my my son really yeah thought it was worthwhile and you've got it you just received it or you've left well mother died and I've inherited it she and he hasn't really bothered very much about it was put you know in the cupboard and that was it I don't know with Unitas this is signed and dated Claude hunt 1906 and we can see here under all this muck how beautifully these dogs are painted and another thing that an artist should do if he's a dog pen he wants to give the pictures value is to give them a sort of human quality and was Lance here was the great man for that but these dogs do have a human quality and of course as a subject matter it's the old dog in the manger he's not gonna let anyway he's not gonna let anyone near his bones but the other ones pinching it from behind and it's you can find all of human life in this picture now you may think that because this picture has been mistreated which I would say it has it but but it detects on the value but in in another way because it actually hasn't been touched re-cleaned it helps the value to a certain extent now the hunts are very sought-after not by your family no but my type of general public and a picture like this is worth six to seven thousand pounds good gracious me well I was down the point of throwing it out but my son said I think it's of some value and that's why we're here tonight the model is based on the most famous British radio ever made did you have it when you were small yes you did in 1934 or 35 and architect Orwell's coats designed around bakelite radio for echo you know you've heard the radio company called echo and it's the most collectible radio of all time now but what I've never seen before is a money box based on that radio and I think that's great and on the back you've got this wonderful instructions and it says when you put 60 pence in if the door opens automatically and it works I mean it's very collectible as a money box it's also great for a radio enthusiast I mean no I would think there's at least 50 powers there regardless of what you put in it I think what this is was a treasure box it was for keeping money or jewelry in it something precious can you hear that because what we've got here are all these metal bands yes caster tough things wonderful carving yes extremely old yes heron well I would guess somewhere around about 1500 let me jot it down I got a larger memory right 1,500 put it on your list I also think it's German but the best bit of all for me excuse me doing this your box is the bottom why well what we often look for in something like this is authenticity you want it to look ancient if you're imagining you're trying to date something everything has to be old yes looking around here we've got pieces of wood which have broken off we've got lovely wood wormholes we've got ABS marks where the guy actually carved this with a tool he wasn't making it on a machine he was making it by her yes and it quite possibly came from a part of the world where carving was second nature everybody carved probably black forest somewhere like that yes what I like is this man and this woman here how this goes these two yeah I see them they're lovely Adam and Eve do you think oh it should be it couldn't be could be well how did you come by did you have yours in an auction for 30 shillings did you you've bought it when was that 20 30 years ago 30 years ago 30 shillings well I think you're thirty pieces of silver have gone up a bit since then I think we're looking at a box here which if it went into a sale in Germany because that is where the market is for things like this yes would be worth somewhere around about 1,500 2,000 pounds English Richard yes they've dropped that down on empty hundred two thousand words this is so delightfully understated the the size is nice too just a little what six foot high I suppose but what really catches my immediately is the rounded edge to this this lovely quarter column here beautifully fluted after an ancient Grecian column yeah the way it leads down rounded here as well continuing that they could easily dropped into a square carpet all the way down here and this lovely og bracket foot or this probably squiggly serpentine foot but again in the round particularly unusual how old is it in your mind 1790 somewhere thereabouts right well the shape of it I think makes it a bit earlier than that this rounded edge to it and the type of handles used are much more typical than 17 forces okay it's quite a bit early good 50 years earlier than that but nothing's been changed these handles I don't even need to open the drawer see if the Hammers been changed you can tell by the color of the handle the shape the fact that it doesn't the wood is the same color underneath that's all even on this beautiful fig of mahogany it's just quite extraordinary the fiddling on mahogany might earlier for you smartly the very beginning of mahogany arrow yes you use this oh yes you do all the time right let me see if I can open it this is just extraordinary I mean one is used to a secretary tears Duke what you call it at oh boy or we call it the desk the desk there's less blocks I've never I've never ever seen a locking mechanism like this and these lovely steel struts here to not only lock it close but to lock it open just the shape the details this little inverted rounded corner here canted and invert every single detail you could imagine just beautifully shaped I mean extraordinary and typical of that 17 forties period is it this a piece of having a family for a long time now I've had it for about 20 25 years I've bought an antique trouble something not an antique shop with a country house sale oh right Ryan Oh charlie heavy isn't it yes so it's a piece you brought relatively recently yes do you remember what you pay for it I think it was about 500 pounds and what we got in show of today may I ask about three and a half thousand well if you multiply that by about three really and say I would say at least ten thousand pounds at least then you might be about right and you'll never find another one no Delft files of about 1670 lovingly glued together yes my children had their cousins to stay and they all went a bit wild I ran around the house and someone found out nobody knew of course we broke it two of them weren't involved but it took for them to put it together wait where did the VARs come from before that I brought that in 1944 in Cardiff Auction Rooms just because he liked it all oh yes yes it attracted me seven look at the decoration on it I mean here again copying Chinese the whole idea were Delft was to imitate Chinese porcelain that was coming into Europe and you got mock Chinese figures but what I think is exciting about these little chaps is there were cartoon quality in which they're done Dutch Delft ours is made in the 17th century it can be beautifully painted with Chinamen I suppose there's a Avars he's holding or musical instrument then have you thought about what these chaps are yes it could be I mean here we've got someone definitely proudly holding of ours looks like he's the China specialist on the Antiques Roadshow think very much admiring that but don't in the sort of a cartoon way and it's not only like the Dutch painted is at all it's much more like I mean this chap straight out of the B now isn't mean he's really an English cartoon character and I think therefore because the way these are done they're so funny but this isn't a Dutch one what's made by Dutchman in England an English version made in London at that time and that makes it so much more exciting to us today because although probably equal rarity as far more collectors and enthusiasts for English ones all this irregularities of it and if it leans a bit its irregularly made but that really is its charm so can you remember there was years ago before we got broken or what it cost you in the auction yes three pounds fifty well three pound ten those money in those days I mean it's sort of tragic to think that it has course mashed it could be made better it could be prepared now not my little hands look by making single hands we could put this together so you'd hardly know it would be expensive but you've got a piece that's worth it because if it's English then a perfect one 10,000 15,000 she was even broken two or three thousand we can attend the family well how did you come by the picture anyway I was a taxi driver and carried some backs into a house for the lady and this was in the hall on the floor I thought he'd been fallen off the wall so I asked her how much she wanted me to rehang it for so which she replied she was throwing it out and to be honest I bought it for the fame and gave her 25 pounds when I took it home I had to convince the wife that would find a better picture for the frame but did you ever go back to him we were certain ask her where she got you pani her husband who was deceased at the time we bought it in Germany in 1932 he was a leather dealer and apparently according to her he'd paid 200 guineas for it in 1932 but she's also passed away since your pops never know anymore well my first impression of this painting signed already reserved veneer who says that it's a fake the problem with Rousseau is that he's a naive artist he's a primitive artist yeah therefore he paints like an amateur now that doesn't mean to say that he didn't produce some really magic paintings of course he did but he started as an amateur and died as an amine and dives an amateur and therefore he is not a difficult artist to copy you know at anyone anything to a certain extent and there's nothing a faker likes more than having something relatively easy to copy which is worth a great deal of money but what do you think about this painting according to the expert who saw it for me and the test we had done they in his opinion it's available and which expert was that Henry surgeon here of Paris Paris right and tell me about the tests you had done x-ray ultraviolet scan it's set for about four hours under a microscope while the lady who did that was doing the testing remove some of the varnish and then took the first set of three sets of paint samples which we had sent away in fact I ended up down to Paris three times and what what were the results of these tests basically the experts said that they actually know all the paints he used the planning he actually died during his paint supplier 60 francs or something so they've got all the bills and they know the quality used and the paint samples matched the colors and in in his opinion it's rich knowledge and I suppose this has been quite an expensive exercise for you fortunately two and a half to three thousand pounds at the time which was five years ago they were you know Russo's were fetching of the two or three hundred thousand pounds so in that context two thousand five hundred three thousand pounds was a reasonable best plus the fact I've been told but three or four times that it was an old copy and I don't know I just that's on the store that I just want to know for definite so the problem is that from our point of view there are thousands of roosters that are not Rousseau's right and and many of these Rousseau's were produced in his lifetime with exactly the same sort of paints and materials that he bought himself because those were the paints available at the time so that when authenticating a picture you have to have most especially in this case you have to have provenance you have to know where it came from and be able to trace it back to the artist and the great problem you are always going to face with this picture is that you haven't got any provenance and the cards are stacked against you because of all the other fakes yeah I bought it for the frames at the end of the day I could always put another painting in this must be one of the largest French posted a normally mantel clocks that I've ever seen do you have it working at the moment no because the pendulum has come off Tim and without the pendant work and Custer clock the well that makes sense but that's a very easy repair as I'm sure you know yes the quality is wonderful starting at the bottom we've got these magnificent figures obviously angels stylized and then running up just looking at the ormolu case now these columns with Corinthian capitals and then all around here we have the most superb masks of various beasts and then running up above the dial area we've got another selection of small putty and on top of this dome a little cherub on its own but the thing that is amazing quality are these porcelain plaques what I'm going to do is just to show you inside the clock see whether we can see a particular mark and in fact yup underneath the movement the initials a are which suggests to me that these plaques were made in eros which is about 80 90 miles north of Paris they are not serve as many people would have thought each of those plaques is individually numbered 4 4 1 1 and has the name border on the plaques right so do you know what these plaques actually represent these four no I don't well they are the continents this is how the Europeans perceived the Americas in the mid 19th century this figure here would originally have been wearing a skirt of tobacco leaves but now we associate them with feathers and then round here we've got sir Asia very much sort of Turkish garb and then coming round to the other side Europe who is portrayed as being rather more sophisticated with all those art trophies down below her feet and here Africa all of the most sensational quality as I say in the gilding around the outside of this turquoise ground is lovely I think it's almost certainly from a model made for the Great Exhibition of 1851 it's an important clock so had you had it in the family a long time or not yes quite a long time ah how long late forties right who bought it my father bought it and there later Scotland and roughly what any page you remember on 75 pounds 75 pounds then well retail price for something like this is going to be in the region of fifteen thousand pounds so that is actually not a bad return on 75 pounds from the late porters no wait and you must treasure it and get the pendulum sorted because it's so nice to have it working yes thank you thank you well are warmer thanks to the people of panache one of the things we've learnt yet again today is the importance of that word provenance you know a picture or indeed any other work of art may look right it may indeed be of the right period but if you don't know its full history if you don't know where it's been then inevitably a question mark may hang over it and that was certainly the case with that picture that the owner hoped was by Rousseau so one or two disappointments perhaps but many happy faces as we leave panache now on route 14 or future so until next week at the same time from all of us here in south wales goodbye

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Length: 42min 59sec (2579 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 11 2018