11th Sep, 2024 10:00

Fine Interiors

 
Lot 675
 

675

A travelling birdcage

early 19th century, the cylindrical mahogany base on glass feet with inlaid decoration to the sides and base, below a polished metal cage with a vertically sliding door, original detachable water and feeding bowls, and original case,
19.7cm diameter
20cm high (2)

Provenance: Jeremy Ltd., Lowndes Street, London, purchased 16 June 2000;
The Bunny Campione Collection.

For a similar example, see 'The Dictionary of English Furniture', vol 1, p.77.

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The Bunny Campione Collection

 

Bunny Campione is one of the best-known and most-loved faces from the long-running BBC series 'The Antiques Roadshow', where she specialises in dolls, doll's houses, automata, birdcages and corkscrews, amongst other esoteric fields.

Sold for £1,200


Condition Report

Handle to travelling case detached but present. The wooden travelling case retains the original internal wood effect paper, the exterior is painted black.

Travelling case 23cm diameter x 25cm high

 

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Auction: Fine Interiors, 11th Sep, 2024


The Fine Interiors department is extremely excited to present our next Fine Interiors sale, to take place on 10 and 11 September.

This sale boasts a wealth of private collections, including a remarkable assemblage of Native American artefacts, the covetable contents from two Hertfordshire homes, including North Road House and Moor Park, the selected property of a Gentleman, a collection of finely made riding crops from Kensington, and a characterful collection of miniature furniture and antique birdcages from Antiques Roadshow regular, Bunny Campione.

With nearly eight hundred lots of period and modern furniture, beautiful works of art, textiles, carpets, ceramics and so much more, we're absolutely certain you'll find everything you need to furnish your home, as well as offering rare and unique treasures that wouldn’t look out of place in the finest collector’s cabinet.

Viewing

Stansted Viewing | Auction

Viewing will be held at our Stansted Auction Rooms, Cambridge Road, Stansted Mountfitchet CM24 8GE, as follows:

Friday 6 September, 10am - 4pm 

Sunday 8 September, 10am - 1pm 

Monday 9 September, 10am - 4pm 


The auction will take place at our Stansted Auction Rooms, Cambridge Road, Stansted Mountfitchet CM24 8GE. 

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Buying a pre-loved, antique, or vintage item not only provides you with unique style and value for money but it also helps to reduce landfill, and the annual emissions of an antique or vintage piece can be as little as one sixteenth of those of its new equivalent!

Sworders is proud to be supporting the work of Antiques are Green - the movement that was founded in 2009 to promote “a greener future created from the past”. Read their fascinating carbon footprint study of a Georgian chest of drawers versus a modern equivalent here

 

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