Antiques and 20th century design.

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  • Ife-Style Brass Head

    A heavy cast head after the celebrated heads of Ife, with fine striations across the face, pierced detailing around the hairline, mouth and jaw, and a ringed neck.

  • Gabriel White (1902–1988) Crystal Palace

    A view of the Crystal Palace from its gardens, with an urn and bandstand in the foreground. White was a British painter and etcher, and later director at the Arts Council.

  • Gabrielle Dumontet (1860–1936) Serpent Lamps

    A pair of lamps, each cast as a coiled snake rising to open jaws that hold the bulb. Dumontet trained under Alfred Boucher and exhibited at the Salon des artistes français from 1891, working as a painter and poet as well as a sculptor. She remains little studied; her work is held by the Musée d'Orsay and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, among others.

  • British School Portrait of a Berber

    A loosely painted head study of a Berber man in a white turban, worked in soft earth tones.