LEAVE YOUR MILLIONS AT HOME---THE COTSWOLDS ART & ANTIQUE DEALERS' ASSOCIATION FAIR IS FOR THE HEAVING MASSES!
Therein lies its charm as you don't need to be an aristocrat or dictator to buy charming, lovely and quirky stuff that are bound to evoke fond memories of your UK trip!
The venue---Bleinheim Palace---is truly regal and magnificent and Malaysians visiting this stately pile MUST pay the entry price and gape at how the rich and mighty of England lived and continue to do so today. Bleinheim Palace is one of the few private estates grand and important enough to merit the title 'palace' as most are simply called 'manor', 'house', 'mansion' or even 'hall'!
After
a spectacular first show last year, The Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers’
Association Fair returns to the elegant setting of Blenheim
Palace , Woodstock , Oxfordshire from Thursday 18th
– Sunday 21st April 2013.
Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, daughter of the present Duke of
Marlborough, is the new Patron of the Association.
Highlights
include a wonderful oil painting, circa 1705, attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller
from The Kyffin Gallery; a William
Bullock marble-top centre table with griffin legs from David Pickup; a pair of spectactular
Gothic Revival burr walnut corner cabinets from Kit Alderson; and plenty more
from the 29 exhibitors taking part. The very best of every discipline is showcased
creating a rich tapestry of history and culture including clocks and
barometers, early needlework and antique boxes, garden ornaments and statuary,
jewellery, silver and glass, carpets and textiles in addition to all kinds of
fine furniture and decorative items, Oriental and English ceramics.
Britannia
Nice cabinet
Carriage clock
Kashan rug
Cutesy rider and horse
Green glass vase
Painting of Bleinheim Palace
BLENHEIM PALACE HOSTS
Nice cabinet
Carriage clock
Kashan rug
Cutesy rider and horse
Green glass vase
Painting of Bleinheim Palace
THE COTSWOLD ART
& ANTIQUE DEALERS’ ASSOCIATION FAIR
Thursday 18th
– Sunday 21st April 2013
‘The best
provincial fair in the antiques calendar’
‘We never realised the depth of quality and
quantity of art and antiques in the Cotswolds.
The fair has opened
our eyes’
‘The Palace : what
a stunning setting for the display of antiques’
The Cotswold Art & Antique
Dealers’ Association Fair returns for the second occasion to the elegant
setting of Blenheim Palace , Woodstock ,
Oxfordshire OX20 1PP from Thursday 18th to Sunday 21st April
2013. Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill,
eldest daughter of the present Duke of Marlborough, has kindly accepted to be
the new Patron of the Association.
Building on last year’s hugely
successful inaugural event, where over 4,000 visitors visited the fair, already
there is palpable excitement and positivity from the 29 exhibitors taking part. The fair is to be staged over four days and
has been enlarged to accommodate extra stands.
All the initial exhibitors have rebooked and the seven new dealers
exhibiting are Andrew Dando, Freshfords Fine Antiques, Hallbakker, Elizabeth
Harvey-Lee, Kinghams Art Pottery Ltd, Kyffin Gallery, Stuart Boyd and Spencer-Churchill
Designs Ltd. The addition of the fair
has significantly enhanced the profile of The Cotswold Art & Antique
Dealers’ Association (CADA) and the membership has grown to 47 quality
dealers. Blenheim
Palace is the ‘perfect
fit’ to host the fair and it provides a unique experience for the visitor and
consolidates the Cotswolds as the antiques centre for the scholar, the
collector and the interior designer.
Everything is for sale with prices ranging from £100 to £150,000.
The fair takes place in
the stunning settings of The Orangery and Campaign Rooms which overlook the Italian Garden at Blenheim. The very best of every discipline is showcased
creating a rich tapestry of history and culture including clocks and
barometers, early needlework and antique boxes, garden ornaments and statuary,
jewellery, silver and glass, carpets and textiles in addition to all kinds of
fine furniture and decorative items, Oriental and English ceramics, fine art
and much more.
Highlights within the
fair include a couple with a Blenheim connection such as an exquisite early 19th
century silk embroidery of Britannia mourning the death of Nelson from Witney Antiques. Distinguished visitors were sometimes
received by the Duke of Marlborough but on the occasion when Horatio Nelson
visited Blenheim Palace in 1802 with Lord and Lady
Hamilton, the 4th Duke refused to receive him and greatly offended
Nelson by sending out his refreshments into the park and not the palace. John
Howard at Heritage has sourced a dish from the very rare ‘Foliage Border Series’ which carries a
transfer mark on the back ‘Blenheim Oxfordshire’, dated around 1820 and with a
price tag of £750.
Amongst the line up of
paintings in the fair are ‘A Portrait of
a Lady’ by Charles Edward Halle (1846-1914) from Sarah Colegrave 19th & 20th Century Pictures;
a ‘Still
Life with Tankard and Vase’ by J.B. Priestley OM (1894-1984), the
celebrated English novelist, playwright and broadcaster who took up painting
late in life when he lived with his third wife, Jacquetta Hawkes, at Alveston
near Stratford upon Avon from the Titian
Gallery; an original etching, c 1890, of La Dance a la Campagne by Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) from Elizabeth Harvey-Lee priced at £10,000; and self portrait of John Jones by Sir Kyffin
Williams RA (1918-2000) from the Kyffin
Gallery at £70,000. An exquisite
watercolour from Derek Newman is by
John Fulleylove RI
(1845-1908) of ‘The Thames, Oxford , Christchurch
College beyond’,
signed 1887. For a more contemporary
feel, John Noott Galleries are
showing work by Peter Barker of local Cotswold scenes such as ‘Swans by the River Coln’.
Collectors of porcelain
will enjoy the antique Grainger Worcester porcelain rectangular plaque hand
painted with a view of the Royal Crescent, Bath after an 18th
century engraving by William Watts, c1820 from Andrew Dando priced at £1,150; a Martin Brothers sculpture of a
grotesque bird, dated 1897 from Kinghams
Art Pottery for £27,500; and a rare ceramic tray designed by Carl Sigmund
Luber and manufactured by Johanne van Schwartz, c1905 for £1,400 from Hallbakker.
Chinese ceramics include a famille verte octagonal plate made during the Emperor
Kangxi’s reign, c 1710, £5,000 from Catherine
Hunt Oriental Ceramics.
Many different styles of
furniture adorn the fair from a superb George III period mahogany, satinwood,
tulipwood and kingwood library breakfront bookcase from W R Harvey & Co (Antiques) Ltd for £150,000; a pair of early 18th century walnut armchairs with
contemporary needlework, c 1725 selling at £14,500 from Kit Alderson; a Regency rosewood library desk chair, c 1815 from
Freshfords Fine Antiques selling for £6,500;
and for lovers of oak Moxhams
Antiques are bringing a late 18th century oak potboard dresser
from South West Wales with many of the iron cup hooks still remaining, priced
at £4,950.
Montpellier
Clocks
are showing a fine rosewood library clock by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, c 1830,
who was a distinguished clockmaker, succeeding his father as head of the family
business and Clockmaker to the Crown.
More choice is available from Formby
Clocks who are bringing a good ebony
veneered bracket timepiece with pull quarter repeat on two bells by Jonathan
Lowndes of London ,
c 1695.
Curiosities in the fair
include a Brighton Pavilion sewing compendium inspired by Nash’s Brighton
Pavilion, the dome enclosing a pin cushion, the lower section a thimble, tape,
waxer, pin cushion and needle case, c. 1820, for £6,500 from Hampton Antiques.
Jewellery is well represented by Howards Jewellers bringing an Art Deco yellow and white diamond
pendant necklace, c 1925. A rare
neo-classical claret jug decorated with scenes from the compositions of John
Flaxman RA is one of the many pieces of interesting glass found on Jeanette Hayhurst’s stand. Textiles include a 19th century
silk Ikat coat from the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan, c 1860s, in perfect
condition, for £4,000 from Legge Carpets,
also showing a fine silk Kashan rug from Iran, late 19th century,
priced at £2,000.
Not forgetting the
outdoors, Architectural Heritage are
bringing a pair of mid 19th century wrought iron gates stamped by
the maker Butterley who was responsible for many prestigious commissions,
priced at £2,800 and a pair of mid 18th century Bath stone finials
originating from Barford Park, Somerset for £12,600.
Event: The Cotswold Art & Antiques’ Dealers
Fair at Blenheim Palace ,
Woodstock , Oxfordshire ,
OX20 1PP
Date/Opening times 18th
– 21st April 2013, 10am – 5.30pm daily
Entry: Complimentary
invitation available from CADA website (www.thecada.org) admits 2 to the Fair
and the Palace grounds
Enquiries: CADA at Heritage, 6 Market Place , Woodstock ,
OX20 1TA M: 07831 850544 or 07855 443913
Transport: Jct
9 of M40; Oxford British Rail; London
Oxford Airport
(Kidlington); A signposted. Free parking
Website: www.thecada.org
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