Objets de Luxe, Courtesy of Chisholm Gallery, LLC
George Denholm Armour (Scottish, 1864 – 1949)
At Speed
A fine, large charcoal drawing of a polo player at speed, his stick raised about to strike the ball.
34 x 23 inches (87 x 58 cm)
Signed: G. Denholm Armour
c. 1930
George Denholm Armour was born in Edinburgh, and was a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. He spent much of his early life in Tangiers where he painted and bred horses. He returned to Britain in 1905 and ran a stud farm in Hertfordshire. Enlisting in the Army in 1914, he commanded a cavalry squadron and rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel, appointed OBE in 1919.
Resuming civilian life, he contributed as a cartoonist for Punch for the rest of his life, and his work regularly appeared in Country Life, Tatler and other sporting publications. His enthusiasm for all things equestrian lends his animal portrayals their power and
flowing movement. He was equally renowned for his equestrian portraits of society figures. He died in 1949 at the age of 85.
A. Guiet (French)
A wonderful Art Deco polo bronze of a player astride his pony
Makers signature and FRANCE marked to the bronze base
10 x 9 inches (26 x 23 cm)
French, c. 1935
Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company
Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company: a magnificent and unique Sterling silver hunting drinks/cocktail set, comprising cocktail shaker or drinks flask in the form of an outsize hunting horn, the body lemon-gilded to resemble copper, together with seven superb stirrup cups, six in the form of hunting dog’s heads, the seventh in the form of a fox’s head, the whole set upon a fitted circular mahogany base, with recesses enabling the stirrup cups to rest or stand upright for pouring, the flask and majority of stirrup cups hallmarked Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, London 1925 (three cups by Wm. Comyn, London, slightly later dates).
Note: the base of the flask bears the retailer’s engraved mark of Longman and Strong, of 1 Albemarle Street. Mayfair, who were retailers of luxury hunting goods before WWII.
Hermès, Paris
A fine set of 12 solid Sterling silver Art Deco styled place-card holders in the forms of racing cars in a fitted grey grosgrain presentation box. The box has been restored to exact Hermès specification. Each holder signed Hermès Paris to the base.
French, circa 1950s.
AA Kinnelly
AA Kinnelly: a very stylish glazed ceramic plaque, unglazed to the reverse, depicting two polo players in brightly coloured glazes, with metallic highlights, in the Majolica style.
12 x 8 inches (30 x 20 cm)
Signed & Dated: 1949
Life Size Polo Player Bronze
A large and well modeled statuary bronze group of a polo player and pony virtually life-size, about to strike a ball, on a bronze socle.
Length: 67 inches (170 cm), height overall: 59 inches (150 cm)
French, c. 1960s.
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A silver plated cocktail shaker, with loop finialled cap and plain strainer, English 1906, bearing the engraving:
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