Antiques Roadshow UK Series 18 Episode 15 Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] 800 years ago this valley in North Yorkshire where we've come for this week's Antiques Roadshow resounded to Cistercian plainchant as the monks of fountains abbey followed their lifetime of prayer and meditation [Music] this is where the monks built their first church and began their lifetime of prayer everyday they attended eight services beginning with vigils at 2:00 in the morning and ending with complan at 8:00 in the evening the parlor took its name from the French verb parle to speak it was the only place where the monks of this silent order could come for a conversation but they could have no idle chitchat it had to be a matter of some significance the life of a monk was certainly not one for a gourmet in winter he would only have one meal a day consisting of vegetables and bread he would sit here in silence listening to readings from Scripture nourishment for his mind and his body [Music] you know it said the cleanliness is next to godliness that wasn't quite true here at fountains the monks only bathe four times a year and even that was considered excessive the last Abbot marmaduke Bradley signed the deed of surrender to Henry the eighth on the spot in 1539 and so Fountains Abbey and the monastery were dissolved well the grounds of the Abbey provide an ideal location for us and even our gamble on fine weather seems to have paid off today so here at Fountains Abbey let's now join our experts with the people of North Yorkshire I bought it at a garden fete about 1946 1947 did you know my wife insists that I paid four and six for you but I'm certain that I paid seven and six for you do you know anything else about the history of Ghana or I didn't know anything about it until about five six years ago while watching your Antiques Roadshow which I'm a-rippin my wife are having watches over the show and there was something like this on the show at the time and now I present you know I'm certain to a certain look to my mind that there's something I mean she picked it up and she saw the instruction to make the the motif Galli yes and I thought well it was a premium nice big belly burger we had one time an antique coming around the house and he offered us I think it was 700 pounds Boyd I think something else so I thought well it is must be and I'm not quite sure well it is but perhaps I can tell you a little bit more about gali because emile gallé at the end of the last century inherited a firm in North Sea his father was more of a ceramic maker than a glass maker I see and gali pioneered cameo techniques in the in bars the earliest pieces tend to be wheel engraved so you'll case the glass in as many colors who've got yeah and the autumnal colors were very much the the style of the are nouveau period so having cased the bass up in in different layers you could either then cut through it with a wheel yes or with hydrofluoric acid this one has been cut through mainly by hydrofluoric acid as it's an acid etched cameo vars and the rim appeared has traces of wheel marks say maybe the finished on on a wheel it probably dates to around just after the first world war period we're looking at that sort of period rather than the earliest period of Gallivan bars you were offered 700 it's worth slightly more than that I think if it went to an open you don't have to pay between eight and twelve hundred pounds for it so it's gone up a little bit yes hijole initial offer seven hundred pounds wasn't at all bad yeah I see yeah anyway thank you very much for bringing it along today well we're we're in Yorkshire and this is typical of one of the more famous of yorkshire x' children thomas Chippendales were I don't think it's very old is it what do you mean my not very old well I don't think it's more than 100 years old is it absolutely right but it's still called Chippendale furniture people always refer to this designers Chippendale and I don't see any reason why not because he was the man who made this style famous quiet but you're quite right about the days late Victorian yeah possibly Edwardian 1895 1900 what is typical of Chippendales work is this type of decoration this Chinese Chippendale decoration here this rather beautifully molded astragalus as they're called beautifully made here leading up here to this Greek key which is again you said in Grecian Chinese the melange that Chippendale did in the 1750s when he was designing and working but no it's a later piece but it's not a reproduction because it would never be made exactly in this shape or style in the 18th century the wood is lovely do you know what the wood is yeah it's obviously been well cherish as it looks to me like a family piece no it isn't we bought it at auction in 1965 the country house sale we couldn't attend the auction so we left a bid 400 pounds and two or three days late so we went home we really forgot about it I didn't think you know I don't know thing you know I'm sure we won't get it and about three days later came this letter to say that our bidder been successful and we got it for ninety pounds isn't that lovely and that was what thirty years ago yes thirty years ago exactly yes I think you've done very well indeed I mean it's beautiful quality that I mean this is so nice these silver-plated handles yeah but there are nice details if you go down here you've got this very nice you go down this very nice again Chinese Chippendale gallery here which is typical of the work that he did and he always made things in in three P's ply and he was seen you've got a break but I have a lot of breaks but I've got all the pieces you have oh we've got to be careful with that because anyone enthusiastic your dusting is going to catch that that's it that's how they won't you see I don't know you shouldn't that could and ought to be probably glued back but what is fascinating is this this is two-piece pride rather than the three-piece that chipping down himself would use so it's got two to two layers of wood rather than one two three as he would do it and it's for strength to keep it much stronger so you've bought it 30 years ago bravely leaving a bid well I hope you have got it in short for 90 pounds no it's not enough it's a beautiful cabinet minimum 5,000 pounds oh my well that's a surprise absolute minimum that's a surprise a Happy New Year card dated in 1924 but the artist is very very special check the yes of course yes he used to come down to Devonshire he found it a very pleasant place for holidays and got to know the family there he used to come and stayed what with your your thumb oh he was living in the village she was living in the village yeah and for his entertaining the children of the village right well this is rather a comic yes joy isn't it cozy he certainly had a sense of humor yeah and did he do this regularly well we've had one or two more yes there must be Harvard doesn't me so like that's wonderful they have that sort of intimate contact yes with an artist as important as Yeats because Yates has become probably the leading Parish painter of the century yes and his work has started recently with the increased interest in Irish artists started fetching really prodigious Sons I mean I they want to excite you by attending about the high prices have been paid for oil paintings but this is obviously a curiosity but a very charming curiosity and probably would now fetch something the reason two to three thousand pounds really yes extraordinary yeah which is not bad for New Year's it's being kept at 50 where's it be it loves suitcases well I hope it'll come out of the suitcase now and they're properly appreciated yes thank you for bringing you thank you so that was beauty and this is the beast you like this why it's hideous the fact is your mother-in-law's has nothing to do what you're thinking is the thing about the Victorian period is if he's so terribly terribly serious and meretricious and high-minded and the great thing about these brothers the Martin brothers is that they really did debunk all of that and they brought horror into pottery in a big way and and this is a piece by possibly by Edwin and the Martin brothers worked as a team although it was a pretty fiery relationship and as they one-by-one dropped off their perches I'm afraid that they the the production went into decline because they were rather reluctant to pass on their particular secrets of their particular part of the process of the manufacture the design is actually done by scratching free hand scratching into the clay why's that still wet and then rubbing various colored oxides to pick up the outline and then covering the whole thing in a salt glaze which is done by throwing salt into the kiln at a critical point in expiring the salt evaporates throughout the killer sticks to anything this is probably going to be worth at auction somewhere in the region of 250 300 pounds not even knowing it shows or mother-in-law's to go back in the cupboard waking up it's not pretty this must pour a very help you to decant a nice bottle of port very well known to be used it's in there oh not me no it came from the praise and its go perhaps mount Chris Prairie how long have you had it but the solicitor gave it George when he cleared there how long has that now oh he been dead 20 some you know well I think we got around another 200 years to that oh yes I've never seen one before except perhaps in a museum when I wasn't looking for that kind of thing but this is an 18th century English phonic fun this bit is just like an English wineglass yeah and you can tell it's old the secret all these lines what oh yeah yeah and they are caused by the pincers when they draw it out it's a beam perhaps a little chip there that's still it's it's a gem I mean it's a lovely genuine awesome dock big old money numerous is aware teachers here I should think about a couple of hundred pounds Oh but I've collector of things to do with wine yes might well pay more yes cuz I'm they are exceptionally rare yes this is a ship swivel blunderbuss or sometimes known as musketoons I'm never quite certainly know the difference between them and it has to be condemned of the title of biggest blunderbuss in the world you'll expect that sort of thing I come from Yorkshire and this would have been carried by a merchant one and they will probably have I shouldn't even get does lilies which normally would have been kept in a ready use rack somewhere either the captain's cabin or something like that a slightest hint of trouble from you say pirates yeah I'd have been whipped out they probably kept loaded ready and to load it you would have poured a good handful and this wasn't bothered measuring it got a powder bag and put a big handful of coarse powder down there some waddling probably oh come out of the the deck caulking or something like that and a bloomin get big handful a shot everybody thinks that blunderbuss is are loaded with broken bottles stones and things like that but they used to load them with shot because to get a much better path and shot is a lot ballistically more efficient than a bits of scrap iron and things like that and you got the rod out of it okay the good stoking down and everybody always think that these great flared muzzles actually cause the shot to spread yeah ballistically they don't a cylinder is the board cylinder isn't the most efficient way of causing the shot to spread and what they're actually it's for ease of loading she could fully enjoy it down there and also when you've got it I mean rarely no and he's gonna argue with a finger that looks like a trombone are they there they'd have been whipped up out of the racks at some stage it would have had a swivel on there yeah dropped into the gunnels and when longboats full of whoever it was a sorely over the side buying and it would have been pretty devastating stuff and really a very rare piece you don't see ones as large as this very often do no and I suspect that they must have been scrapped as soon as they became obsolete and there's a lot of metal in there and that would have been well worth melting or busting of a scrap so rarely do you see them it was bought in a table for seven and a half quit about thirty years ago really very interesting piece and I think that it's worth between 500 to 750 pounds oh yeah simply for its size alone yeah and a wonderful piece it's been long I always assumed to my mother who probably had it as a child at the turn of the century I'm like yes but I have no idea well it's actually a little bit later than that looking at the mark it is by Steiff which is little the famous German meet who made all those famous teddy bears and they also made animals and they made dolls but what I love about this is I haven't had an Eskimo in my why should I I think as long as I've been in the business and I think this might have been made to commemorate Scots Antarctic expedition the mark which you usually find on the left ear is here which is a little metal disc yes which type on it and he is stuffed with what the teddy bears were stuffed with at the time which is long strips of wood which then get really shoved in the event yeah so it's quite stiff and yet if you hold it for any length of time by its arm it becomes like sawdust and people say oh the stuffing is missing right but actually it's not it's just it's just got broken down into sawdust and then of course this furry substance is in fact mohair a little bit the worse for wear he's got a bit of a mop but other than that he's in really good condition and I think in the right tail someone collecting all the range who hasn't got this one might pay as much as eight hundred two thousand for it you won't get the chance oh he won't know I think yes but do keep him out of the light and away from the moths and the bugs right now it fascinates me to be in the wilds of Yorkshire and to find a Russian tea set up here this this is course bait as you probably know by um by God no Moscow an Englishman who went to Moscow to pick up a Potter and produce a very very fine factory Moscow of course being chosen because it wasn't some Petersburg Petersburg was the Imperial factory and no one was allowed to work there so a number of firms set up in Moscow and including Gartner and here you got you've got a complete tea set earlier there's a few pieces missing I believe yeah yeah how did it come to be here in New York ship oh my wife's Grampa was Alton Rocha family was emerging I'd mention it whatever that means over there and when they left when the revolution was on a lot back as many bits and pieces they could do and these are the part of some of the things that with him so to get away with it with the teeth it life is it was a delicately brought it back over here the yoga it's an interesting set God the pieces him to be found in Afghanistan and places like that very surprisingly they went to India at the Near East and it's fascinating it's very much in the style of of Limoges porcelain because it was a big French influence in Moscow and perhaps that explains this this this vague connection with French Limoge style but nice quality um it in England it doesn't fetch a huge amount of money gardeners porcelain Moscow porcelain which is really very little one day I think it will probably boom but a set like this what would six cups and saucers and you know that the various parts of it probably only gonna fit something like about four hundred some of our experts collect porcelain others collect pottery others still furniture and more pictures but the private collecting passion of last up is actually one object and that is his cello music special ability I think is one of the most important things in my life certainly s and this particular cello is a Cremona cello it makes it special it certainly as Cremona is the home of the violin family of the making of violins the best violins in the world and this is from Cremona skegness house it was made by a man called George Hudson who obviously had pretensions to being an Antonia Stradivari and so he called his workshop the Cremona workshop scheduled as' but he was a fine cello maker of his day he was I mean there's some exceptionally good instruments made in this country throughout 19th and early 20th centuries and this luckily passed away from my grandmother and you've had this there for really and played it since you're a small child it was going to be when I was 8 it was really far too big for me to start on and in fact when I started playing on it in the first few weeks I so hated the noise and I was so upset that my teacher hadn't shown me how to chew the instrument that I actually put my fist through it where just about on the top man it's a very good repair not quite invisible not all together invisible no but it still makes that superb sound it can make a good sound here yes you know you're being falsely modest it makes a very good sound indeed [Music] [Applause] rippen Town Hall and he was 11 when he made this as well no we don't officially they're my grandmother's but she's so like passed him down as a family heirloom but I've got a town hall liberal of the house they Cathedral of so but they've found a bit of restoration work on them repaired about two years ago about two years ago now you see would yes it would well we used to play with them as kids we I think we did a bit of the damage well where we're standing now is about four miles away from this which is the other great ecclesiastical landmark of this part of the world isn't it Pete surely this is written cathedral even are you a Ripon man yes my family have been there for over a hundred years right so this is a very very familiar view this church - yes it's a you must be very excited to get it when you got it because I didn't go and bid for it I'm it was innocent it was in a sale and I had to send my wife I didn't peg up how long ago was this about 15 years ago forty fifteen years ago today well it's a spectacular example of mid Victorian landscape and we've got the wonderful architecture in the background we've got all the other probably very accurate I guess details and what is rather nice is the way in this particular composition one's got the two little figures here which give a little bit of some narrative interest they draw the eye into the whole composition when you bought it had you any idea who it was by what it was entered in the catalogue has been by George Clark sometimes Stanfield who understood to be the son of clients understand that's right the son of William Clarkson Stanfield now it's not actually signed but there are many features about it which make one feel confident that it probably is by George clocks and Stanfield it's the way the architecture has treated is quite distinctively him this foliage is quite distinctively him but what I find absolutely fascinating is this watercolor which this is also yours well I'm afraid we bought that as well it was but in a separate sale that was there were ten items before the sale by tax incentives so they all the all the abroad colors of which this was one came from Clark's and Stanfield family so they had absolute cast on provenance in that sense we think and when you're looking at this water car that you see it is so clearly exactly the same view as the oil and I think the existence of this water color coming definitely from the artists collection himself really just about ties up to this picture as being by George Clark's and Stanfield and I think it's a a wonderful discovery particularly being so close at hand here I think that this picture now at auction would probably be worth between eight and twelve thousand pounds perhaps you should even cover it for a little bit more for insurance perhaps thirteen or fourteen thousand our to that you didn't do too badly now you know who this must be must be Charles Baldwin the couple covers is broken what a shame yeah but that's a wonderful that's magnificent isn't it super how did you acquire lift to me by great on in her will which had a great art and all do you like it Oh apparently I would like to charge that's the best reason for being left something live you enjoyed it when you're a child is better is great for the virtue virtue has its rewards take care of 1890 1889 1889 is just over a hundred years and this is the work of Charles Baldwin superb painter animals animals and birds was his great speciality they did all the gilding as well he would have done the whole caboodle of the decoration his tremendous this all this modeling it's buying the fine ports but he didn't he design the pot or is that something no no no Hadley Wood James Hadley would have designed the shape but to Baldwin did the painting of it and they're super super piece if that had been perfect I was looking at about three to four thousand pounds but with the damage like that you have to I suppose hearted I mean it's it's repairable but it will still count as a damage pot but I can see that going for a thousand pound the pot in victorious time when the Queen's before she was in mourning for most of her reign there was only one color that it was popular to wear and that was black so we've got this piece here which is a very impressive butterfly brooch of good size the only thing is is not jet it's actually called French jet which is black glass it's my opinion probably late Victorian period and typically you'd have these faceted buttons that were mounted onto a lacquered black metal frame now because it's a butterfly butterflies are always very commercial in jewelry particularly if there's one thing people always like to buy it's butterflies so the fact that it's made of a costume substance which is what this is it's just black glass and black metal doesn't detract from the fact that it's an extremely stunning piece and I would think if you were selling it it ought to make around about a hundred and fifty pounds and for insurance purposes probably around about two hundred and fifty pounds thanks open black glass costume jewelry but an impressive piece which is worth quite a lot of money this is a very imposing looking jug is there something that has been in your family a long time it was handed down from my grandmother to my father who in turn gave it to me I believe I'm led to believe that it was a piece that the silversmiths who made it used as his qualifying piece when he qualified for his master's Christmas well the piece was actually made by very well-known silversmith called George Fox he was one of the most notable silversmiths of the 19th century I doubt however whether a piece like this would have been made as an apprentice because this is known as the CH aleni viewer and supposedly modeled after bars or jug made by chilena in the 16th century however this is very much in the high Victorian taste and it's hallmarked around the neck around here right and maker's mark GE air shoes for George Fox and the date letter here the P is for 1870 I say it also has a very good looking stopper in the top here modeled as a Roman centurion and which is cast and very good quality but notice it's actually made by a different maker maker's mark FB and a date letter for 1871 so imagine that was added just the following year the quality of this the weight is really tremendous isn't it and and look at all the detail in here the Stags right and the faces you know very well executed and I think if you had to buy something like this from a reputable establishment you could probably pay five thousand pounds so a good jug like this it is very heavy very good quality by a good maker but again see my insurance bread [Music] well it's a very nice piece it's a serious musical box and in its day 1880 made in Geneva with a Swiss movement it would have been an expensive box for a rich family and was it in your family all that time no it was a close friend of the family who had it given to them in payment for some work that was done for another family who couldn't pay in money so they paid with the musical box but Leyland got very elderly she knew that I had listened to the boxes more child so she said that she wanted me to have it so that I would look after it yes which I which you have it has the British coat of arms so in fact it was made for the British market and it says 12 heirs and whereas you'd have fabric ale are genève with a lot of them the early ones this doesn't have that here but it was made in Geneva what is particularly lovely as you get musical boxes with five bells but these have got nine and they've got this lovely colored butterfly here then you've got another gilt metal one here and then you've got a B and a dragonfly it's a lovely lovely thing to have apart from looking at it also makes a wonderful noise for insurance you should be thinking in terms of four thousand pounds who having said that it needs a little bit of work done on it this tooth here needs replacing and it might cost you 100 pounds or so and it needs cleaning up a bit and you might find that one or two of the pins need replacing and I think they cost something like 10 to 20 pounds of pin yes look so it's a highly skilled fully POS having it done now I think it would yes William Marshall Braun signatures done here two boys on the key side and it's painted in that wonderful what is really British Impressionism it's got that wonderful light in it a really amis ferric way of painting that particular Scottish artist William Marshall Braun was a artist from Edinburgh really how do you get it well popped into him and teacher and this was just the canvas just on the wall yeah and the lady there just asked how much and it was two pound two pounds I gave the two pounds and she gave me six pence stomach and change and we managed Oh we got the painting in walk down and they were the sixpenny stems and the pin one-pound nineteen thirty-five years ago 35 years ago well that's pretty good I mean I think what are we looking at now it's worth between two and three thousand pounds at auction Oh why did you bring these in well I've always liked them but I really don't know very much about them what do you think there might be well I've been told at their late 18th century French mm-hmm from the factory at shanty right well the first thing is it's a look at the material itself and you can see in fact reflected on the on the surface he how the surface is in fact rippled right these are Chinese export porcelain and this is simply them as it were responding to demands in Europe for masses of this material and in fact soft this boss is quite difficult to make at this size that's why they probably sent out these designs to be copied so that the material here being all this is a ripple gray look it's not smooth not glossy that's one of the traditional failings of Chinese export force that's got that and then another thing we look at is a also on the base if you run your finger around the base you can feel the grit yet well Europeans didn't fire their portion on grit or sand like that so we have that that confirms this next we look at that the facade that the actual design and that's of course based on sort of vegetation you get on Lake Shante quite right but it's very very stiff you can see it it's outlined almost like a transfer so this is based on the current fashion form I suppose nice and Poston of scattered flowers and then finally the rim has this what is called we call Asya pattern it's simply basket weave which is extremely fashionable all the German factories and some of the French factors did this kind of weave pattern but it's just simply not not that and then finally when you look at the mark you can see it's meant to be the hunting-horn of shaunti but in fact if you didn't know that was a hunting all you wouldn't really know that so these are rather amusing plates are made in Jing dodging and central China copying a European idea this is not unusual that they've copied all sorts of things if these were shaunti they're probably worth fraction more than the chinese i feel maybe eight hundred four thousand I suppose the Chinese a twenty six to eight hundred for the pair but they're very interesting for that point of view that they're there in disguise yeah I think they're fascinating thank you well thank you very little own so jacked I think this is this is wonderful it's a very it's a simple microscope it would have been used by one of the amateur microscopists it's a little Li Bakunin microscope I would probably date it around the middle part of the 18th century and from that point you could eat actually quite rare yeah it's called a Libra cone because of the concave reflector which was I suppose invented by the vicuna in the early part of the 18th century 1730's and it's simply used like this you literally just hold hold the piece up to the sky up to the light and view the object and what will happen is that this reflector would reflect the light from from the daylight onto the object which was put on to that point yeah and you just had been idiom to focus and the reflector would then reflect the light onto the subject do you remember what you paid for this yes I paid 2 pounds 50 about 20 odd years ago if you sold this today I would imagine that you'd probably be looking to get something in the region of 400 pounds for it that's rather nice so two pounds fifty to four hundred pound is a nice but very appreciable I have yes yeah anything yes it yeah it's quite a rare object yes can you tell me who he is it could be anybody from the purlins to the Rabi buns Ravi Ben's I think he's Raghavan's except it's female I suspect that the decorator decided to have a joke by converting what is definitely a male figure into Widow Twankey or whatever but the material is is is straightforward early 19th century pearl where the so-called because of the pearly blue of the glaze and it's been an animal on top and the enamel is beginning to flake off was it yes it does happen in dishwasher do you do put all of your pottery figures in the dishwasher well when the need really washing they do yes well I can think of other ways of washing your ceramics well I've never thought it was being anything special no one likes it in the family really yes you are teasing me about this water right okay okay well well I I I'm not some word I wouldn't put it in this water anymore this is a this is a particularly tricky enamel and it doesn't like game please thing but anyway apart from that it's really rather fun value well before you'd put him in the dishwasher probably worth in the region of three to four hundred pounds after the dishwasher probably a hundred and twenty two hundred eighty parts expensive you could buy dishwasher for that well always gonna be suspicious about these little bureaus made as a ladies writing desk very small and desire highly desirable and when they're made in walnut like this one has to be very careful about the date and what I'm concerned about really is the color and the quality of the finish on it what's the history as far as you know we bought it from an antique shop about 20 years ago and what did he said it has what day what period well um early 18th century right right well certainly the shape and the look of it is that what I'm concerned about though is the way it has been republished and perhaps 20 years ago it would have been perhaps more acceptable but now I I don't like the way all this feather banding on here and on the top is very flat and I wonder if it might have been revenir to some sage possibly using the old veneer and laying it down again and then re polished that would probably make sense do you use it no it's almost too small a day isn't it it's a nice cutter inside I like the lock and what is terribly pretty is this stepping here it's really charming like that and notice the difference in color it was not much wrong with that drawer is that no nice oak draw nice dovetails a little bit crude as you'd expect it at that time so we're talking 1710 Queen and Georgia first very difficult to be 100 send actor about the date it's not signed it's not dated what a gem of a piece of furniture it's just a pity about the color so 20 years ago yes do you remember how much you pay for it at just over 500 pounds well that's about half the value of a reproduction piece today so if it's 500 pounds then what have you insured it for now just what we paid for it really you haven't changed insurance in 20 years really enough well I think you've got to put at least five thousand pounds of pork it's a really gem piece of Queen Anne George the first furniture well you can't help but really like this picture as a family painting yes it's been in the family for over a hundred years it was left to my great-grandfather by a friend of his along with a thousand pounds on the contents of his wine cellar wonderful I mean this is this is the sort of history lesson in other words somebody who is being honest to their contemporary parent he's not trying to say anything more than what it is is he really I mean here we've got this perhaps religious figure certainly local dignitary coming in to give them an extremely boring talk about life and teachers trying to keep them in control they're doing anything but listening to him I mean there's about one girl here I think who's paying attention who's paying attention from the rest of them just behaving this would expect children to behave but John Morgan is a relatively well-known painter of contemporary life yes he's not trying to prettify things he's painting very accessible beautiful pictures but he's not trying to tell a story as such he's just telling it as it is and that comes from Sir David Wilkie who died in 1841 who is the Scotsman who is the father of contemporary painting if you like in Britain for the Victorian period and John Morgan has a son or Frederick Morgan and Fred Morgan paints contemporary life but in that rot and what we call very Victorian chocolate box ways simpering stories and they make a lot of money because of it but I prefer daddy because I think that John Morgan himself is a much better artist we think of certainly the heart of Victorian painting was being very hard-edged very hard lines sharp colors and the one thing I like about John Morgan's paint is that he's got a very soft focus often he's more colorful this this is rather rather monitor and even if it were cleaned it hasn't got a lot of color in it but he has this rather wonderful softness about him which I like very very much a picture of this quality of this sort of subject is it's hard to find now and it's very much sought-after I think a conservative estimate might be thirty thousand plus thirty thousand pounds plus I think a retail estimate would be 70 to 100 thousand pounds because actually we're today did you find a picture like this it's a fun picture it's brought much enjoyment to our family thank you well I must say we've had an absolutely marvelous day here at Fountains Abbey it's been perfect in every sense we've had good weather and many hundreds of people and find things they brought with them too so our warm thanks to the people of this part of Yorkshire and I very much hope you'll join us next week at the same time until then from all of us at Fountains Abbey good bye stay with us on BBC one Hamish has a rival for Isabelle's affections next [Music]

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Keywords: Antiques Roadshow UK, Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow Series 18, Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire, VHS, Rare Antiques, BBC, BBC 1, 50fps, 1996, Antiques Roadshow 1996

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Length: 43min 55sec (2635 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 11 2018