Adam's AT HOME AUCTION February 23rd 2020

102 At Home 23 rd February 2020 292 CIRCLE OF JAMES ARTHUR O’CONNOR (1792- 1841) Wooded riverscape with a figure in red in the foreground, ruins beyond Oil on panel, 12.5 x 17cm Inscribed ‘James O’Connor / T.W.&Co’ on old la- bel verso € 200 - 300 293 CHARLES FOTHERGILL (1782-1840) Auckland Castle (the Bishop’s Palace), Bishop Auck- land, county Durham Oil on board, 15 x 15.5cm Feint inscriptions on board and frame verso Professor Michael S. Quinn of Mount Royal University, Calgary describes Fothergill as ‘one of the most im- portant pioneering naturalists in Canada and one of the best of the period anywhere.’[1] 1] Michael S. Quinn, Biographical Dictionary of Amer- ican and Canadian Environmentalists and Biologists, p.282 (Westport: Greenwood Publishing, 1997) € 600 - 800 294 A GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND BRASS BOUND SLING HANDLE FUEL BUCKET, of slightly ta- pered form with brass band colour and foot. 66 cm high. (with handles raised) € 700 - 1,000 295 AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY BLACK FOREST CARVED COMPACT CHEST, of rectangular form, with hinged domed lid and carved loop side handle (one missing), the entire piece typically carved to give the impression of stacked logs of wood, with central embroidered panel. 60cm wide, 41cm deep, 43cm high € 500 - 700